The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.49-50

Big Plume went to the agent and requested help to get his squaw, who he said was confined in the stable at the trading post by S.P. Horr.  The agent sent two of the agency police who found the woman had been released Horr saying, "she could have got out anytime," which the agency police said likely was true.  The next day the agent made special inquiries as to the facts, and "Horr's habits" and found he had been in the practice of admitting squaws to the store at night, and to use the words of his partner, C.L. Bristol, "was making a brothel of the store", Horr dismissed.  No other traders on reservation, although several on the borders." Confined to the reservation under the supervision of crooks of the agency ring the Indians were getting decimated by the "slow death measures" of tribal malnutrition, disease, whiskey, illiteracy, demoralization, forced prostitution, and embezzlement of tribal land cession funds by the agent.  Inspector Thomas wrote, "They are nearer barbarians than anything I have ever seen." Reservation plunder became party spoils as new Indian Agents were nominated by competing political parties.  Montana Territorial Governor Martin Magginnis, and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs nominations for Indian agents were made, but the Indian Commissioner trumped the Montana Governor with his choice of Mark Baldwin of the Ohio political machine.  The old agent, Major Allen, was charged with a serious drinking problem, while the agency cattle herd was scattered all over the reservation and the agency school had only 18 scholars with 4 agency school employees plus his daughter.  Agent Baldwin refused to receipt Agent Allen for the agency cattle herd because it was scattered all over the reservation and an exact count was impossible.  Baldwin requested new carpeting for his office as well as personal expenses for his trip out to the Blackfeet Agency.  He questioned the unrestricted use of the reservation grazing lands by white stockmen's cattle herds trespassing by the thousands along Birch Creek, the reservation's southern boundary.  He surmised the cattle had been driven to the edge of the reservation with "the intent of their grazing thereon" and reported that the drought had increased the demand by white stock owners for the grass and hay lands of the Blackfeet Indians.  Over 30,000 head of white stockmen's cattle were grazing on the reservation, and as many as 265,000 head of cattle of the Texas Cattle Kings had crossed the Blackfeet reservation to reach Canadian markets.  Agent Baldwin deposited $979 in the U.S. Treasury for grazing fees he collected for allowing the white stockmen's cattle herds to pass over the reservation and for their "pasturage."
The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau  
pg.49-50