Letter
IRVINE, Assistant Commissioner, Northwest Mounted Police to Rear-Admiral G. H. Scott, February 2, 1878
[Inclosure 3 in inclosure.—Telegram.]
Mr. Irvine to Mr. Scott.
Fort Walsh, Cypress Hills, N. W. T.,
February 2, 1878. (By mail to Helena, Mont.)
February 2, 1878. (By mail to Helena, Mont.)
I was with Sitting Bull yesterday. He is quietly camped with about thirty lodges three miles from our post.
At end of Cypress Hills, about sixty miles from here, Spotted Eagle, with about one hundred and fifty lodges, was moving up from east to join Sitting Bull. There are about two hundred other lodges of American Sioux in the neighborhood of Wood Mountain, and there are besides about seventy-five lodges of Nez Percés with Spotted Eagle.
No foundation whatever for rumors that Assiniboines and Yanktons are joining in bands, and that Sitting Bull intends to move south.
I leave on Monday (4th February) for Wood Mountain; will stop in all Sioux camps on my way.
A. G. IRVINE,
Assistant Commissioner, Northwest Mounted Police.
Assistant Commissioner, Northwest Mounted Police.
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U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P.