Volume I of Wyoming historical publications, in an article on Fort Laramie says in 1835 two men were sent to the Black Hills to induce Bull Bear's Ogallalas to come to the Platte to live, and that this was the first Sioux band to come near Fort Laramie to trade.

There was no Fort Laramie then, and the

Fort William that was the antecedent of the historic fort was builded 1835. Lone Horn's hunting trips must have antedated that event by at least a score of years. The Sioux were here in numbers as early as 1815, for the battle of Kiowa with the Kiowas, and the Battle of Round House Rock, with the Pawnees, were about 1815. If Lone Horn was the first of the Sioux to reach the Platte river, he must have been quite young at the time, or else he was quite old at the time of the conclusion of peace between his people and the Cheyennes.

The migrations of the several tribes across the Platte must have been in rapid succession, the Comanches were presumed to be north of the river about 1800, and ten or fifteen years thereafter the Sioux were here. In the meantime, came and passed, the Kiowas, the Arapa-. hoes imd the Cheyennes. The North Platte river was the dividing line, in the days of the trappers, although the Sioux were sometimes found south of the line. _i3/2386

In 1850 the scourge of cholera swept along the trail, and spread among the Indians east of and around Scotts Bluff, and its vital effect drove all else out of mind for a time. Stansbury found five lodges full of Sioux, all dead of cholera, at Ash Hollow, and cholera was raging in a village of two hundred and fifty lodges farther up the Platte.