They wrapped her body in beautifully dressed deer skins, and out north of the present ruin that was once the post hospital, they erected a scaffold, for her burying place. The soldiers helped to erect the scaffold, they went out to meet the burial

pageant, and over her resting place they fired the burial salute. . Her favorite white horse was killed and its head and tail fastened to the scaffold, that she might ride to the Happy Hunting Grounds.

Not only in the Mists of the Hereafter does White Flower live. The new Indian girls see the embodiment of her far-off vision in the present progress of her people. While Indian boys of the second and third generations after the intellectual liberation of Standing Bear, accept the standard of our civilization, and join in the universal sentiment of 'America, advance."

PART III

WHEN CATTLE MEN WERE KINGS

WHEN CATTLE MEN WERE KINGS

The passing of the Indian menace in western Nebraska, brought into prominence its capacity as a range. True, before that, it had been brought to the attention of freighters, and "the builders" who had their herds of oxen, commonly called "bull herds," in the land about us.

From every source available we have thought to make this part of the story of the development of the high plains, complete, there being no authentic record. Only fragmentary incidents here and there, that have fiction and inaccuracy as a basis or for filling, it gives but little idea of the magnitude of the business. Naturally from the broken stories -- the material at hand -- this part will be broken and rambling, like the life of the nomadic cowboys-- here today and there tomorrow.