Sioux were repulsed, but as often they rallied
and repeated the charge until sundown, when
they effected their retreat with considerable loss.
Had Antelope returned in due season, the
charge would have been made before dawn,
while the people were yet asleep.

When the battle was over, the Rees, Man-
dans, and Gros Ventres gathered their dead and
wounded. The night was filled with mourning.
Soon the sad news was heralded throughout
the camp that the beautiful daughter of the
Ree chief was among the missing. It was sup-
posed that she must have been captured while
driving her ponies to water in the early morn-
ing. The grief for her loss was mingled with
horror, because of a fear that she might suf-
fer humiliation at the hands of the Sioux war-
riors, and among the young men there were mut-
tered threats that the Sioux would pay dearly
for this.

Though partially successful, the Sioux had
lost many of their bravest warriors, and none
could tell what had happened to Antelope--he
who had been believed the favorite of the gods
of war. It was suggested by some envious ones
that perhaps he had recognized the strongly
entrenched position of the three tribes, and be-
lieving the battle would be a disastrous one,