"None of the time was spent on private business whatever. 30 days needed just for travel to Washington and return." He protested "rations approved for fiscal year will in all probability cause much loss of life, and a large military force will be needed to prevent destruction of government property, cattle herd; that supplies must reach Agency before November, freighting in the winter is almost impossible. The anxiety and sleepless nights of last winter I must try to avoid in the coming one. That in view of inadequate purchases of beef and flour for Agency; annuity goods except blankets and clothing be omitted and funds used to increase supply of provisions." Agent Young wrote Colonel Gibson of Fort Shaw that he feared violence on part of Indians since insufficient appropriation was made by Congress: "This has naturally caused dissatisfaction amongst the Indians as they suppose I am the cause. I would respectfully suggest the propriety of Col. Kent's command being moved nearer this Agency for the moral support it would afford."
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.31-32
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