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With the Northern Cheyenne to guide them, the remaining bands of Sioux and Cheyenne continued north along the eastern flank of the Black Hills. Putting the snow-covered peaks behind them, they angled west across a windswept landscape of gray-brown hills and frozen, drifted snow, hung over by slate-gray sky.
As they topped the last bluffs east of the Powder River, the camps came into view on the plain before them, smoke from the fires hanging thick among the branches of the cottonwoods. Shafts of sunlight pierced the clouds, mottling distant hills and sparkling ribbons of water where the river ran free of ice. The tribes separated, the Northern Cheyenne returning to their camps, the Southern Cheyenne aiming for a site half a mile downriver, and the Sioux moving past them, toward lodges only faintly visible to the north. Page 517
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Upper reaches of the Powder River |
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