There was some apprehension that when they got among the five thousand friendlies they would excite them to violence. It was determined to make a show of courage, and the troops, in solid formation, ready for any emergency, rode straight through the agency, to Fort Robinson.

That ended the insurrection at the agency, and Sitting Bull, whom Custer was trying to prevent from going north, when the massacre occurred, got away after wiping out that portion of the advance. He was pursued, but reached the Canadian line in safety.

War Bonnet creek is a branch of Hat creek, coming in from the east. The point of convergence is in, or near the twenty-two thousand acre ranch of Colonel Charles Coffee, in northern Sioux County.

SAND HILLS STATION ROBBERY -- BIG BEAR, OR CRAZY WOMAN -- THE SOD CABIN -- PRIVATIONS OF EARLY YEARS

Hugo Koch, was one of the old freighters of the late fifties and early sixties. He is still living at Lander, Wyoming, and is an intimate friend of Charles Andrews of Scottsbluff, who had charge of the feeding business at the Scottsbluff Sugar Factory for many years. I have a letter from Koch in which he speaks of his connection with the Sand Hills station, which is located a few miles over the line in Wyoming, and he says : "eighteen miles west of Scottsbluff." This would indicate Robideaux Gap, far eighteen miles west of Mitchell Gap would not reach the state line.

It was shortly after the Grattan Massacre that Spotted Tail and a band of Sioux are credited with attacking this station as a stage from Salt Lake City was enroute east. They killed all the employes and the driver, and carried off twenty thousand dollars in gold, in twenty dollar gold pieces, belonging to the Livingston Kinkaides Company of Salt Lake City.