Major Long also stated that in 1820 the Cheyennes, "on the Cheyenne river" secured goods from the British -traders through the Sioux and they would bring them to the Platte where at "distant periods" evidently meaning long intervals, a sort of an Indian trading fair is held, usually on "Grand Camp creek," by the Cheyennes. Arapahoes, Kiowas, and Comanches. Tin's may have been as far up the river as tin- present Grand Encampment, but I doubt if any of ihe creeks had their present names so early as that date. The Arapahoes carried on this sort of trade before the Cheyennes took it up, but the Arapahoes seem to have been prevented by the Sioux from securing goods from the Missouri, and the Cheyennes took up the

trade. The intertribal trade between the Indians appears to have been of a very early origin, and Hyde thinks that it was started by the Comanches when they were north of the Platte. When they were driven south of the river, the Kiowas took it up, and when they were driven south the Arapahoes assumed charge of the trade, and they in turn were compelled to move south and it then fell into the hands of the Cheyennes. The Sioux would have undoubtedly followed the business had it not been for the interference of the white trader, who took it over entirely.

In 1814-15 the Sioux and Kiowas were at war, and a decisive battle was fought on Kiowa creek in the west part of the present Scotts Bluff county. Here the Kiowas wrere beaten and retired into the mountains. They later went south and joined the Comanches and have thoroughly amalgamated therewith. Their last raid into the "North River" country was when they burned the trading post in Robideaux Gap.