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.

I am not sure as to the exact date of the location of Red Cloud's Agency on the Platte, but it occurred about 1870. It was on the north side of the river near the Nebraska-Wyoming line. By the year 1875, the new Red Cloud Agency was established on White river, west of Fort Robinson. The agency on the Platte was not abandoned until two or three years later, although it may have been officially thrown into the discard.

Sheldon has a photo of the ruins of a sod house on the site of the Platte River Red Cloud Agency, that is believed to be what was left of one of the original structures of the early seventies. The photo was taken 1918, and from the best information from the oldest inhabitant, it is all that remains of one of the first buildings erected.

COAD'S BATTLE ON LAWRENCE FORK -- "SHORTER" COUNTY ORGANIZED TANK FIGHTING ON THE PLATTE -- BUFFALO BILL KILLS TALL BULL

Affairs like the Harney battle on Blue Water, or worse still, that of Col. J. M. Chivington, at Fort Lyons, on the South Platte, drove the peace loving Indians into the more desperate of the savages. The latter was an unprovoked attack upon a large village of inoffensive Indians. Over the lodge of the chief there floated the stars and stripes, yet an hysterical, or a deliberately brutal, commander brought about wholesale murder, with the result that many hundreds of lives were lost in the years of hostilities that followed.