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cleanliness in person and food, and also learning to do well the work for which they were employed. That anything in the shape of evil will not do, but must come up to a standard.

I saw them learning to realize that they were not hired merely to receive their pay, or, if possible, to "boss" the job, and have their own way about it. Knowing that the brothers of many of these men have offered to take care of their families, stock and farms, while these go away to earn money to help all, I can but class your great exhibition as an industry which will benefit the Indians of Pine Ridge Reservation. Most respectfully yours, JNO. ROBINSON,
Missionary Pine Ridge Agency, Dakota.

COL. T. A. DODGE, U. S. A., re U. S. CAVALRY.

Harper's Weekly, June, 1891.

This able magazine has done effective work in the past years in faithfully illustrating the same subject that the Wild West is simplifying to the present generation by animated tableaux--thus aiding the permanent character of the marvelously correct and imperishable illustrations of their artist, Fred Remington (and their contributors--notably Col. Dodge and Theo. Roosevelt), time enhancing the literary, artistic, and historical value of their work. Liberty has been taken to remarkable Relief of Pine Ridge Ride, by Guy Henry's command, whose dark-skinned "Buffaloes" furnish a chapter to Western experience by having their feet "chilblained" and their thin faces sunburned) by old Sol's reflection from the snow) on the same day. Col. Dodge intelligently discourses on American riders, and relates the following cavalry trips:

"Our Western cavalry is now the pattern of the cavalry of the future. Let us quote some isolated facts, quite apart from the civil war, to show that our cavalrymen on Indian service have stout hearts under their army blue as well as stout seats in the saddle, and earn credit for them both. Mention need not be made of the risk every scouting party or detachment runs of pershing in an Indian ambush, like Custer of Forsyth; nor of frightful marches of many days with the termometer at forty degrees below zero, like the command of Henry. Let us look at some good distance riding, for it is in this that our men excel. General Merritt, in 1879, rode with a battalion of the Fifth Cavalry to the relief of Payne, and covered on hundred and seventy miles from 11 A. M., October 2d, to 5:30 P. M., October 5th--two days and six hours--accompanied by a battalion of infantry in wagons, which much retarded the march. He arrived on the scene in good order, and ready for a fight. Single couriers had ridden in over the same distance from Thornburg's command during the previous two or three days in less than twenty-four hours. Captain F. S. Dodge marched his command on the same occasion eighty miles in twelve hours--6 A. M. to 6 P. M.--and came in fresh; and double the distance has been made from 10 A. M. to 5 P. M. next day. In 1870 four men of Company H, First Cavalry, bore dispatches from Fort Harney to Fort Warner, one hundred and forty miles, over a bad road--twenty of it sand--with little and bad water, in twenty-two hours, eighteen and a half of which was actual marching time. The horses were in such good condition at the end of the ride, that after one day's rest the men started back, and made the home trip at the rate of sixty miles a day. In 1880, Lieutenant Robertson, First Cavalry, rode from Fort Lapwai to Fort Walla Walla, one hundred and two miles, over the snow, deep in places, in twenty-three and a half hours; and starting next morning, rode back in two days. These are but a few out of scores of equal performances. The keen appreciation of pace and of the ability of the animals ridden in such feats is marked. Men who can do work like this and come in fresh, must be consummate horsemen.

"In constant association with the cavalryman comes that most faithful servant--the only good Indian except a dead one--the Indian scout." To these can now be added the remarkable trip of Gen. Guy Henry's (Buffalo), Ninth Cavalry, last winter, to the relief of Pine Ridge after "Wounded Knee," over ninety-six miles in the night, a fight at daylight after arrival, a light breakfast--rush to the successful aid of the Seventh at "the Mission" afterward and a return at night after two days almost continually in the saddle; two severe fights, and not a sore back horse in the outfit.

Such is the regular army of U. S., the nucleus of the Grand Army of Emergency, which is commanded by such experienced men as Generals Schofield, Howard, Gibbon, Brook, Wheaton, Henry, Ruger, Sumner, Forsyth, Carr, Merritt and the strangest of the late Indian war, General Nelson A. Miles.

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cleanliness in person and food, and also learning to do well the work for which they were employed. That anything in the shape of evil will not do, but must come up to a standard.

I saw them learning to realize that they were not hired merely to receive their pay, or, if possible, to "boss" the job, and have their own way about it. Knowing that the brothers of many of these men have offered to take care of their families, stock and farms, while these go away to earn money to help all, I can but class your great exhibition as an industry which will benefit the Indians of Pine Ridge Reservation. Most respectfully yours, JNO. ROBINSON,
Missionary Pine Ridge Agency, Dakota.

COL. T. A. DODGE, U. S. A., re U. S. CAVALRY.

Harper's Weekly, June, 1891.

This able magazine has done effective work in the past years in faithfully illustrating the same subject that the Wild West is simplifying to the present generation by animated tableaux--thus aiding the permanent character of the marvelously correct and imperishable illustrations of their artist, Fred Remington (and their contributors--notably Col. Dodge and Theo. Roosevelt), time enhancing the literary, artistic, and historical value of their work. Liberty has been taken to remarkable Relief of Pine Ridge Ride, by Guy Henry's command, whose dark-skinned "Buffaloes" furnish a chapter to Western experience by having their feet "chilblained" and their thin faces sunburned) by old Sol's reflection from the snow) on the same day. Col. Dodge intelligently discourses on American riders, and relates the following cavalry trips:

"Our Western cavalry is now the pattern of the cavalry of the future. Let us quote some isolated facts, quite apart from the civil war, to show that our cavalrymen on Indian service have stout hearts under their army blue as well as stout seats in the saddle, and earn credit for them both. Mention need not be made of the risk every scouting party or detachment runs of pershing in an Indian ambush, like Custer of Forsyth; nor of frightful marches of many days with the termometer at forty degrees below zero, like the command of Henry. Let us look at some good distance riding, for it is in this that our men excel. General Merritt, in 1879, rode with a battalion of the Fifth Cavalry to the relief of Payne, and covered on hundred and seventy miles from 11 A. M., October 2d, to 5:30 P. M., October 5th--two days and six hours--accompanied by a battalion of infantry in wagons, which much retarded the march. He arrived on the scene in good order, and ready for a fight. Single couriers had ridden in over the same distance from Thornburg's command during the previous two or three days in less than twenty-four hours.