gings. The woman was comcly, and beautifully dressed. IHer dress of the mountain sheepskin tastefully ornamented with quills and beads, and her hair plaited in large braids that hung down on her breast,"

In 1837 the agent for the "Sioux, Cheyennes, and Poncas" reports that " all these Indians live exclusively by the chase;" and that seems to be the sum and substance of his information abont them. le adds, also, that these remote wandering tribcs have a great fcar of the border tribes, and wish to avoid them In 1838 the Cheyennes are reportcd as carrying post on the Arkansas River near the Santa Fe road, but still depending

In 1842 they are Platte; and in the same year, Mr. D. D. Mitchell, Supt. of In dian Affairs, with his hoad-quarters erations will pass away before this tcrritory' which tho wild tribes of the Upper Mississippi deringl "becomes inuch more circumscribed; for if we draw a line running north and south, so as to cross the Missouri about the mouth of the Vermilion River, we shall designate the limits beyond which civilized men are never likely to settle. point the Creator seems to havc said to the tides of emigration that are annually rolling toward the West, 'Thns far shalt thou go, and no farther.' At all cvcnts, if they go beyond this, they will never stop on the east side of the Rocky Mountains. The utter destitution of timber, thee sterility of sady soil, together with the coldness and dryness of the climatc, furnish obstacles which not even Yankce enterprise is likely to overcome. bencficent Creator seems to have intended this dreary region an asylum for the Indians, when the force of eirçumstances shall have driven them from the last acre of the fertile soil on trade at a on the chase. spoken of as a "wandering tribe on the at St. Louis, writes: "Gen- thc territory in were then wan- At this as which they once to the ever-restless Saxon breed to erect their huts. possessed. IIere no inducements are offcred The time may arrive when the whole of the Western Indians will be