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Thar 's one feat of fast hard ridin ' that Injun performs , which I hears from others , an ' which you-all might not find oninterestin ' if I saws it onto you . `` Merritt with three hundred cavalry marches twenty-five miles one mornin ' . Thar 's forty Injun scouts along , among 'em this Bloojacket ; said copper-hued auxiliaries bein ' onder the command of Gen ` ral Stanton , as game an ' good a gent as ever packs a gun . It 's at noon ; Merritt an ' his outfit camps at the Rawhide Buttes . Thar 's a courier from Crook overtakes 'em . He says that word comes trailin ' in that the Cheyennes at the Red Cloud agency is makin ' war medicine an ' about to go swarmin ' off to hook up with Sittin ' Bull an ' Crazy Hoss in the Sioux croosades . Crook tells Merritt to detach a band of his scouts to go flutterin ' over to Red Cloud an ' take a look at the Cheyennes 's hand .