"Nowhere in my journeying have I seen a country so destitute of wild game." He was taken aback by the fact that the local cattlemen could send the county sheriff to the reservation to arrest Indians for killing cattle which had trespassed on the reservation lands, "but that is the practice in this portion of Montana." Indian cattle were called "injun critters" by the Texas cattlemen and taken for what the county sheriff called "bad debts." The Sheriff of Choteau County arrested and took away four Indians accused with killing cattle, but Agent Young refused to assent to their removal, read law to Sheriff, was told "he did not care for U.S. law and would take the prisoners anyhow." Agent Young did not want the Indians to see conflict of authority so delivered written protest and notified U.S. Marshall in Helena, capital of Montana Territory. He reported visits of Sheriff detrimental to good management of agency, "These men use language tending to exasperate Indians such as, "only good use to put Indians is to hang them", etc. One of the prisoners taken this time is a mere boy and a panic has seized my boarding scholars lest they may be arrested and taken off."
-The Sarced Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.34
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