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"I was the only white woman living on the entire length of the Yellowstone River. One spring when the Crows started on their hunt, the (Crow) Chiefs came to the house and ordered us to get our wagon and go with them. We had no other alternative but to obey orders. My daughters were not with us at this time as we had left them with friends in Bozeman. They (the chiefs) escorted us, my husband, and sons myself and four men we had hired. They took us (on a) two days' journey with them down the Yellowstone River to Sweet Grass. They gave us food and a separate lodge to sleep in but we had no idea what they were going to do with us so we were anxious for the end of our journey. They took us (as they said) for it was good luck for us to be present at their Sun Dance The Sun Dance is a dedication of blankets and other clothing they give to the sun. They take some bright colored blankets stake them out on the ground and dance around them. The bucks only (participated) and no squaw is allowed in their dance, either Sun (Dance) or Tobacco Dance or War Dance.

"Their musick (sic) is beating on rawhide stretched tight over some kind of hoop. It makes a hideous coarse noise with their peculiar chant for an acompament (sic). They keep this up for several days and nights and then all the blankets and robes were left for the sun as that is the way they worship the sun, then they feast and then they are ready for their journey either for war or on a hunting trip. This time they wanted to leave me a girl and some ponies in exchange for my little boy, Stoney, as he could talk their language very well... I was frightened very much when I refused for fear they would take him anyway. Only when it was over and they started on their trip Buffalo hunting they sent us back, sending a few Indians with us; a half day and then they left us to go back to the Springs (Hunters Hot Springs) but warned us to hasten on to Bozeman for safety, as they told us we would be killed if we staid (sic) there. We took them at their word and returned to Bozeman."

The first mention of Dr. Hunter in local newspapers appeared as an advertisement in the BOZEMAN AVANT-COURIER on September 13, 1871: "A. J. Hunter, M.D., physician, surgeon and Accoucher, Bozeman City, Montana Office at the County Hospital Physician to the County Hospital; Drugs and Chemicals; Physicians' prescriptions accurately compounded at all hours. Comfortable rooms and medical treatment furnished to private patients at the Hospital." From the same newspaper, October 18, 1871: "New Drug Store--Dr A. J. Hunter, on Saturday last occupied his neat new house on Bozeman Street, next to the Metropolitan Hotel, with a fine assortment of drugs, something Bozeman has long needed. The building was erected for the purpose of a drug store, and to say that the Doctor exercised taste and judgment in its arrangement would be repeating a fact known to all, system and order being characteristics of the man. Drop in and take a pill with the Doctor."

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