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bullet holes when he was killed, hangs from
the same hinges upon which it swung on that
fateful day in December, 1890, when the old
enemy of the pale face received the wounds
that sent him into eternity.

The log cabin is filled with curious trophies
and relics, not the least interesting being a

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CURLY, THE CROW SCOUT.

large bull skin on which, with consummate
art, Sitting Bull had drawn a number of
graceful horses. That he painted them in
blue and red and yellow was doubtless due to
the fact that he had no colors but those af-
forded by the mineral hills of the northwest
with which to do his work. A find portrait
in the oil of the old man, done by Mrs. Weldon

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THE WAR DANCE.

of Brookyn, adorns the cabin wall, and the
Sioux Indians in Buffalo Bill's show admire
this accurate likeness very much and declare
it "good."

At the cabin yesterday afternoon were
Rain-in-the-Face, the chief, who led Custer
and his gallant 200 into the jaws of death at
the Little Big Horn, and "Curly," the Crow
scout, who was Custer's most trusted mes-
senger, and who was the sole survivor of
that dreadful massacre. It was Curly whom
Custer sent to Gen. Terry for aid after he
found himself caught in the trap that Chief
Gaul and Rain-in-the-Face had set for him.
As a study in recent Indian history the log
cabin and its habitues can scarcely be ex-
celled.