 Complete the following phrase:  Short was reported by Bat Masterson to have killed six drunken Sioux Indians at various times. Later writers have relied on Mastersons story as truthful and added to it, but no documentation of these killings has been found. Nonetheless, Short had been in over 30 engagements fighting Indians while working for the government. His first Indian fight was in 1869. While working as a scout for General George Crook in 1876, he was stationed in the Black Hills during the 