es_, 1843, No. 222.

[292] Taliaferro to Dodge, June 30, 1838.--_Indian Office Files_, 1838,
No. 690.

[293] Taliaferro to Clark, March 3, 1831.--_William Clark Papers,
Correspondence, 1830-1832_, p. 129.

[294] Taliaferro to Clark, September 14, 1834.--_Indian Office Files_,
1834, No. 206.

[295] _Taliaferro's Diary_, July 7, 1834.

[296] _Taliaferro's Diary_, December 25, 1830.

[297] _Taliaferro's Diary_, June 28, 30, 1834. On January 17, 1831, he
gave a blanket in which to bury a woman.

[298] _Indian Office Files_, 1832, Nos. 287, 294, 295, 296.

[299] _Auto-biography of Maj. Lawrence Taliaferro_ in the _Minnesota
Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, p. 236.

[300] Snelling to Taliaferro, November 13, 1820.--_Taliaferro Letters_,
Vol. I, No. 21.

[301] Found among the _Sibley Papers, 1830-1840_.

[302] Taliaferro to Cass, March 3, 1832.--_Indian Office Files_, 1832,
No. 289.

[303] Taliaferro to Clark, July 15, 1831.--_William Clark Papers,
Correspondence, 1830-1832_, p. 235.

[304] _Post Returns_, April, May, 1834, July, 1835, in the archives of
the War Department, Washington, D. C.

[305] "These warriors of Mr. Rainville's were constantly with me, for
they knew that I was an English warrior, as they called me, and they are
very partial to the English."--Marryat's _A Diary in America_, Vol. II,
p. 91. Captain Marryat, the English novelist, visited the upper
Mississippi region in 1837.

"Many and strong are the recollections of the Sioux and other tribes, of
their alliance with the British in the last and revolutionary wars, of
which I have met many curious instances".--Catlin's _Letters and Notes
on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians_,
Vol. II, p. 657, footnote.

[306] _Niles' Register_, Vol. XXVI, p. 363, July 31, 1824; Vol. LIII, p.
33, September 16, 1837.

[307] Marryat'a _A Diary in America_, Vol. III, pp. 221, 222.

[308] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. XII, p. 320.

[309] _Niles' Register_, Vol. LIII, p. 82, October 7, 1837.

[310] Snelling to Taliaferro, October 19, 1824.--_Taliaferro Letters_,
Vol. I, No. 50.

[311] _Taliaferro's Diary_, March 18, 1831.

[312] _Taliaferro's Diary_, March 11, 1831.

[313] Taliaferro to Clark, April 3, 1831.--_William Clark Papers,
Correspondence_, 1830-1832, p. 161.

[314] Renville to Sibley, August 21, 1840.--_Sibley Papers, 1830-1840_.

[315] Quoted in Neill's _The History of Minnesota_, pp. 338, 339. T