After this battle, and Harney had passed on to Fort Laramie and Fort Pierre, he undertook to show the Indians what a superior man he was, by chloroforming a dog. He told them that he could kill a dog, and then bring it back to life. Accordingly he administered the chloroform, and the dog went to sleep. Then he undertook to revive it, but the dog was too dead for that and the Indians had the laugh

Be that as it may, Harney obtained from the affair the title of "squaw killer," which was never effaced.

Among the prisoners taken were five Ogallalas, the wife and four children of Chau-tepe-tan-ya (pronounced Changta-Petang) or "Fire-Heart." There is little said of Fire- Heart, as to just who he was, but the name certainly sounds like a good Indian cognomen. Butler says, it was after Harney left Fort Laramie, and had gone to Pierre for a grand council, a number of Indians obtained permis-

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on him, declaring "white man's medicine too strong."

Doane Robinson, historian of South Dakota, says "though hailed as a great victory, and an additional plume in Harney's crest of fame, Ash Hollow was a shameful affair, unworthy of American arms, and a disgrace to the officer who planned and executed it. It was a massacre as heedless and as barbarous as any which the Dakotas have at any time visited upon the white people." I am led to believe, however, that the battle was precipitated by the alarm of the squaw, and the hysteria of the Indians who imagined they were about to be attacked, when in fact the purpose may have been only to prevent escape.