Lot Essay
Curtis wrote of this subject: In the thick forests along the banks of mountain streams the Apsaroke made their winter camps. The country which the Apsaroke ranged and claimed as their own was...extensive... . In area it may be compared, east and west, to the distance from Boston to Buffalo, and north to south, from Montreal to Washington-certainly a vast region to be dominated by a tribe never numbering more than 1500 warriors. The borders of their range were, roughly, a line extending from the mouth of the Yellowstone southward through the Black Hills, thence westward to the crest of the Wind River mountains, north-westward through the Yellowstone Park to the site of Helena, thence to the junction of the Musselshell and the Missouri, and down the veritable Eden of the Northwest.