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52 few days and upon journeying a short distance crossed the line and got into the Indian Territory; and I found that the further we travelled more beautiful and fertile was the country: it was the month of April and the ground was teeming, with the most gorgeous wild flowers, and intersected through many portions with lovely meandering streams of water. One spot called the Eureka Valley was covered with blue grass, and had many rivulets and springs running through it; and the place was a favorite resort of the Indians in Winter, on account of its being a valley, which was well protected from the cold and wind and in it at that season of the year they found plenty of grass for their ponies: here also they would pitch their lodges in Winter after having committed their Spring, Summer, and Fall depredations. It was about this time that General Sheridan had brought the Indians of this territory to a temporary peace settlement by seizing the principal Chiefs and threatened to hang them: the consequence was, that they had been sent to certain reserves in this territory. On my way from Camp Supply I had the pleasure, and novelty, of witnessing a strange spectacle: it was the moving or changing the