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to command a company of men there in the fight in August. In sixty-six days he had traveled more than four thousand miles, having no means of transportation more rapid than an Indian pony or a canoe. Improbable as this achievement appears, it is substantiated by the military records.

The Rees never were an independent people after Leavenworth's campaign.