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To accomplish this I sent out the best-posted guides (using chiefs, sub-chiefs, half-breeds of friendly Indians) that I knew on the plains, to each of the hostile tribes asking them to come into Fort Laramie.
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Dodge sent guides to invite hostile tribes to a consultation at Fort Laramie.
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