, to watch the clouds and serve his gods. But these white men would
come like a great flight of grasshoppers to cover the length and breadth
of the prairie-land. The buffalo would roll away, like a dust-cloud, in
the distance, and never return. No meat for the Indian--no grass for his
mustang--no place for his home. The Sioux must fight till he died or be
driven back into waste places where grief and hardship would end him.

Red and dusky, the sun was setting beyond the desert. The old chief
swept aloft his arm, and then in his acceptance of the inevitable
bitterness he stood in magnificent austerity, somber as death, seeing in
this railroad train creeping, fading into the ruddy sunset, a symbol of
the destiny of the Indian--vanishing--vanishing--vanishing--

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