hunted with them, and knew all the principal chiefs and headmen.

Through such influences, I thought I saw good chances of preserving

peace, and of inducing the discontented to go quietly to their

reservations in the Indian Territory as soon as General Hazen, the

representative of the Peace Commissioners, was ready to conduct them

Before returning to Leavenworth I put my mediators (as I may call

them) under charge of an officer of the army, Lieutenant F. W.

Beecher, a very intelligent man, and directed him to send them out to