This old work map is not correct in some details, as in location of Point-of-Rocks and Chouteau Island. Bent marked on this map in faint blue pencil marks-- 1. "Lodge Pole Trail" along the Arkansas from Ft Atkinson west into Colo. On Bluff Cr south of Ft Dodge "Camp here 1840." As I recollect it, this is the big camp of Sheyennes and Arapahoes at the time of heir battle with Kiowas and Comanches, but the date Bent gives is wrong--should be 1838. 3. On the Cimarron just below mouth of Crooked Creek "My G. father died." This he told me was where his grandfather, White Thunder died after being wounded in the Wolf Creek battle, 1838. White Thunder was Keeper of the Arrows and a very prominent man. This map also shows in a red broken line the trail of Dull Knife and his band--going north he crossed the Arkansas near Cimarron Crossing west of Ft Dodge and that night camped on a head of Pawnee Fork (camp shown by an Indian lodge mark inside a circle. Next day Bent says Dull Knife camped at Black Lake famous in Cheyenne tradition, and Bent marks this as the marsh or sink into which White Woman's Cr flows. Next day he camped at the mouth of Hackberry Cr, just about where Black Kettle was when Wynkoop came out to get the white prisoners in 1864.
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This old work map is not correct in some details, as in location of Point-of-Rocks and Chouteau Island. Bent marked on this map in faint blue pencil marks-- 1. "Lodge Pole Trail" along the Arkansas from Ft Atkinson west into Colo. On Bluff Cr south of Ft Dodge "Camp here 1840." As I recollect it, this is the big camp of Sheyennes and Arapahoes at the time of heir battle with Kiowas and Comanches, but the date Bent gives is wrong--should be 1838. 3. On the Cimarron just below mouth of Crooked Creek "My G. father died." This he told me was where his grandfather, White Thunder died after being wounded in the Wolf Creek battle, 1838. White Thunder was Keeper of the Arrows and a very prominent man. This map also shows in a red broken line the trail of Dull Knife and his band--going north he crossed the Arkansas near Cimarron Crossing west of Ft Dodge and that night camped on a head of Pawnee Fork (camp shown by an Indian lodge mark inside a circle. Next day Bent says Dull Knife camped at Black Lake famous in Cheyenne tradition, and Bent marks this as the marsh or sink into which White Woman's Cr flows. Next day he camped at the mouth of Hackberry Cr, just about where Black Kettle was when Wynkoop came out to get the white prisoners in 1864.
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