[24] This treaty “did away with all the employés ... whereas, before, the agent had a force to assist him in finding, destroying, and preventing the introduction of whiskey; now, he is entirely alone.”--_Senate Documents_, 1st Session, 35th Congress, Vol. II, Pt. I, p. 342. [25] _Senate Documents_, 1st Session, 35th Congress, Vol. II, Pt. I, p. 338. [26] Hughes’s _The Treaty of Traverse des Sioux in 1851_ in the _Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society_, Vol. X, Pt. I, pp. 106, 107. [27] Murray’s _Recollections of Early Territorial Days and Legislation_ in the _Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society_, Vol. XII, p. 120. [28] Hughes’s _The Treaty of Traverse des Sioux in 1851_ in the _Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society_, Vol. X, Pt. I, p. 107. [29] Robinson’s _History of the Dakota or Sioux Indians_ in the _South Dakota Historical Collections_, Vol. II, p. 210. [30] Thomas Hughes, in his article on _The Treaty of Traverse des Sioux in 1851_, says concerning this: “The Indians, however, repudiated this agreement, and asserted that it was a base fraud, that, as they were told and believed at the time, the paper they signed was represented to be only another copy of the treaty, and that they did not discover its real import, and the trick played upon them, until long afterward.”--_Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society_, Vol. X, Pt. I, p. 114. [31] Address of Greenleaf Clark on _The Life and Influence of Judge Flandrau_ in the _Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society_, Vol. X, Pt. II, p. 774; Daniels’s _Reminiscences of Little Crow_ in the _Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society_, Vol. XII, p. 519. CHAPTER III [32] C. C. Carpenter’s _Major William Williams_ in _Annals of Iowa_ (Third Series), Vol. II, p. 150; _Senate Executive Documents_, 1st Session, 31st Congress, Vol. II, pp. 235, 242, 243. [33] This fort was established by Brevet Major Samuel Woods, Sixth Infantry, with Company E of the same, from Ft. Snelling, Minnesota. It was established by General Orders No. 19, War Department, Adjutant General’s Office, of May 31, 1850. Major Woods and men were detailed by Orders No. 22, 6th Military District, St. Louis, Missouri, July 14, 1850. Major Woods and men arrived on the site August 23, 1850. See _Fort Dodge, Iowa_, in the _Annals of Iowa_ (Third Series), Vol. IV, pp. 534, 535; Jacob Van der Zee’s _Forts in the Iowa Country_ in _The Iowa Journal of History and Politics_, Vol. XII, pp. 197-199. [34] _Fort Dodge, Iowa_, in the _Annals of Iowa_ (Third Series), Vol. IV, p. 535. [35] Flickinger’s _Pioneer History of Pocahontas County, Iowa_, p. 27; Fulton’s _Red Men of Iowa_, p. 288. [36] Samuel J. Albright’s _First Organized Government of Dakota_ in the _Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society_, Vol. VIII, p. 139; Fulton’s _Red Men of Iowa_, p. 288.