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42 to leave the country to which they had been removed by the Government & return to their former hunting grounds which they had sold to the U.S. - June 27. Spent the after part of the day with Mr & Mrs Steele & family Mr? Whitehorn and Leut Nelson at Lake Calhoun which is distant about seven miles from The fort. It is approached by a road across a most beautiful prarie, slightly rolling in surface & skirted by "Coteau"s covered with forest - The eye can pierce an unobstructed distance of several miles across this beautiful lawn, for such it seems to be, & one is constantly expecting to see neat farm houses appearing at every turn, - The whole country has the appearance of a cultivated grazing country, its rolling