It was at this time that Tall Bull, one of the most bestial and brutal, although brave Indians, obtained the title of the "scourge of Kansas," because of his numerous raids, culminating in the massacre of the "German Settlement," and taking away two of the young women. General Carr had at hand the strategy, of maneuvering of the best known of all the old scouts on the pursuit of this band, none other than Colonel W. F. Cody. The final battle occurred "at the springs in the sand hills," a few miles south of the old Valley station on the South Platte. Here it was that Buffalo Bill

killed Tall Bull, by shooting him from his horse. One of the young women captives was killed by the Indians, while the battle was on, and two braves were about to tomahawk the other, when the unerring markmanship of the old plainsman ended their career. Tall Bull's band was headed for the Niobrara and White river country, where they could brag about their achievements to other Indians, but it was utterly destroyed at this battle.

The fifteen years war following the killing of the Mormon cow was drawing to a close. Spotted Tail had been taken to Washington, and Red Cloud was losing prestige, for the peaceful Indians were being fed regularly by the whites.

INDIAN AGENCIES ADJUSTED -- SITTING BULL'S DETERMINATION -- BAT- TLE OF WAR BONNET CREEK

Then for a few years, the work of establishing agencies and locating the Indians in places where each might better work out his destiny, without the interference or trouble making of another tribe was the duty of the war department. Early in the seventies the old Red Cloud agency was built at the Wyoming state line, on the Platte river and in a few years the new agency was established on White river.