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land.  We looked it over and found none that we wanted as it was rough and stony, and we told them so.
    He then proposed to us, that we should go South and look at another piece that was better.  We told him we had traveled from the line to the Western border, and we did not wish to go farther.  He went South and in a few days returned and told us to make a selection of one of the three tracts, and the President would give it to us in exchange for our Reserve on the Nobrara.
   We replied, "your words to us at first from the Great Father seemed fair, He would