And the people of a generation ago knew of Little Moon Post-office, at the crossing of the Pony Express on Horse Creek, which site is now ( 1919) owned by L. J. Wyman.

In his reports of 1835, Col. Dodge makes no mention of travel on the trail, but ten years later Col. Kearney tells a different story. The latter also tells of a thousand Indians at Fort Laramie, and he also advised the government against the puchase of the post.

The treaty of Fort Laramie, September 17, 1851, gave the whites the territory from the forks of the Platte to Red Buttes. The Indians never ratified the treaty, but the white people have the land.

In 1846, the Sioux were run down and discouraged, and they had assembled at Fort Laramie and were making great demonstrations. These were doubtless the Indians referred to by Col. Kearney. The Whirlwind had assembled them for war against the Snakes. Before they departed upon their proposed conquest and slaughter, the buffalo came north, and the whole expedition turned into a buffalo hunt. With full stomachs the Indians relented their purpose, and settled upon the land. The following year Fort Laramie was sold to the government, and shortly thereafter Fort Fontenelle was built at Scotts Bluff by the fur traders.

HISTORY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA

SONGS OF PARKER AND MINTO

About the time the conferences were being held by Colonel Dodge, the Presbyterian Church sent out Samuel Parker and his bride, in answer to the call of the Nez Perce Indians, and they made their "honeymoon journey" into the west, which journey ended in their death at the hands of "praying Indians." Their melancholy fate has been laid to the door of commercialism, and the Hudson Bay Company was accused of instigating the massacre on the far shores of the Columbia.