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in Calhoun County. Their last battle was on the Lizzard, in the present limits of Webster County. Si-dom-i-na-do-tah was a brave and skillful commander and had concealed his warriors in the heavy woods and brush of a high bluff.

The Pottawattamies were led into ambush, where they encountered the terrible fire from the concealed Sioux. They fought bravely, but were defeated with great slaughter and the survivors who reached their own country were so few that their tribe made no more raids into the Sioux country.



SIDOMINADOTA

SIOUX CHIEF MURDERED BY HENRY LOTT AND SON

In 1847 a desperado, named Henry Lott, built a cabin, which became a rendezvous for horse thieves and outlaws, near the mouth of the Boone River. Horses were stolon from the settlements below and from the Indians, secreted on Lott’s premises and from there taken to the eastern part of the State and sold. In 1848, Lott’s marauders stole a number of ponies from the Sioux Indians, who were hunting along the river. Si-dom-i-na-do-tah and six of his