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Rh crops, their cattle, swine, and poultry, and in white-faced, panting panic flew for their lives.

Governor Jayne sent a detachment of soldiers to conduct the settlers of Sioux Falls to Yankton, leaving all of their property unprotected, to be immediately stolen, wrecked, and burned by the savages; and so ended the ambitious dreams of the empire builders who had settled upon the Big Sioux. They wholly abandoned the place and several years elapsed before there was any further settlement at Sioux Falls.

The settlers at Bon Homme and Yankton gathered at the capital, where a strong stockade was built for their protection; but the country from the James River to the Sioux was wholly depopulated. To increase the terror of the little handful of pioneers who remained, the report came that the Yanktons, under the lead of the unruly chief Mad Bull, had broken away from the influence of Struck by the Ree and were about to join in the massacre. Governor Jayne called every able-bodied man in the territory to arms, and under the lead of the citizens of Yankton, commanded by Captain Frank Ziebach, and Company A of the Dakota Cavalry, which had been organized the previous spring with Nelson Miner as captain, a good military organization was effected, and peace, security, and order were restored. Struck by the Ree asserted his loyalty and Americanism over his tribe, held the restless young men to his standard, and protected the settlements from the hostile tribes from up the river as well as from the straggling Santees. In a few weeks confidence was restored and the settlers returned to their