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By morning the sandbar was a killing ground.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the spring Asa Crowder is back on the Missouri with Ashley, hobbling horses on a bar below the two Arikara towns. Cal Ogle has come up from Potosi with news of home and a letter from Asa's mother, still sealed. Then the firing starts from above, the horses go down on the picket line, and the men on the bar have the river at their backs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe survivors drop downriver to wait for the Army. 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