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Collection Reference Number GLC08982
From Archive Folder Documents Relating to the 1870s 
Title Fred Courtney to P. Sanford regarding chasing Sitting Bull into Canada
Date 23 July 1877
Author Courtney, Fred (fl. 1877)  
Recipient Sanford, P.  
Document Type Correspondence
Content Description Reports that his regiment, the First Infantry, along with the twenty-second, have chased Sitting Bull into Canada. "We were out for 40 days with the 22nd along the little Missouri where we found a new camp of 60 lodges of Indians we followed them up through the Bad lands but had to give up the chase as we could not bring the train along. they were on their way to join Sitting Bull who has crossed over to Canada and is going to remain their the British told him he had to decide whether he would remain there or the United States, so he concluded to remain in Canada and promises not to return to the United States Territories this we believe puts an end to the expidition." Written at the end of the Yellowstone Expedition of the Sioux War. Larger forces had forced Sitting Bull to retreat North into Canada. However, four years later he and his people were forced to return to the United States, unable to subsist in Canada due to the diminishing buffalo population. He surrendered and his band moved to a reservation. Written in pencil. Signed twice, once with initials.
Subjects American West  American Indian History  Military History  Westward Expansion  Canada  Global History and Civics  Foreign Affairs  Immigration and Migration  
People Courtney, Fred (fl. 1877)  Sanford, P. (fl. 1877)  Sitting Bull (b. ca. 1831-1890)  
Place written Cedar Creek, Montana
Theme Native Americans; Foreign Affairs
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945