General Conner, in the Spring of 1865, moved his headquarters from Denver to Fort Sedgwick, which was built not far from the site of the burned Julesburg, for from this point he could better direct operations.

Mooney says that Red Cloud was "the most famous and powerful chief in the history of the tribe, and rose to distinction by his own force of character." "He was not a hereditary chief, but a member of the band of which the chieftainship lay with the family of Young- Man-Afraid, the latter more conservative and friendly to civilization."

Red Cloud's chief lieutenants in the Powder River campaign were "Young-Man" and "Crazy Horse." The feat of keeping the Indians together for the two years 1866-1868, provisioning them, and a determined united front to the government stamps him as a remarkable organizer, and with great power. The government finally gave up the attempt to open the Bozeman Road, and this must have added greatly to the prestige of Red Cloud.

Crazy-Horse was not an hereditary chief, and never addressed in person any council, but always spoke through his uncle, Little Hawk.

"Which leads me to inquire," says D. W.

Butler, "the nature of the system that prevailed among the Sioux and Cheyennes as to the authority and position of the acknowledged chiefs, and the war chiefs or leaders like Red Cloud and Crazy Horse and Roman Nose. One might imagine there would be much conflict of authority. But evidently not."

Crazy Horse was not much known until after 1865, when he had a brother killed by the whites near Fort Laramie, after which he went on the war path with vengeance.