Excerpt from Red Cloud, the Solitary Sioux: A Story of the Great Prairie Sergeant MacMahon; The rope was again within my grasp; The solitary Sioux; At last the Sioux raised his head and spoke; The Sioux was now almost at the flank of the wapiti; His eyes all at once became fixed upon one object set within the mid-distance; A brisk trade is being carried on; Watching an opportunity, the trader addressed the leader of the band; Both dog and man were rolling together upon the ground; Firing the prairie grass; The white man was the trader McDermott; McDermott pulled up his horse; It was a curious group this, that now held its course into the western wilds About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.