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I finally suggested that the best plan was to wait until the couriers came closer to the command, and then, just as the Indians were about to make a charge, to let me take the scouts and cut them off from the main body of the Cheyennes, who were coming over the divide. "All right, Cody," said the general, "if you can do that, go ahead."
Under these instructions Comstock and Grover made it their business to go about among the Cheyennes the most warlike tribe of all then camping about the headwaters of Pawnee and Walnut creeks, and also to the north and west of Fort Wallace, while Parr spent his time principally with the Kiowas and Comanches.
During the summer a deputation of Cheyennes and Arapahoes visited me at ranch headquarters. On the last lease taken, and now inclosed in our pasture, there were a number of wild plum groves, covering thousands of acres, and the Indians wanted permission to gather the ripening fruit.
He must fight, and the Indian will die where his fathers died." With that, the Sioux unstrung their bows and whipped the Cheyennes on the face and back, crying, "Coup!" as if they were striking the enemy. So Black Horse sent word that the Sioux intended war. The fort was named Fort Phil Kearney.
There for many years the three friendly tribes of plains Indians Cheyennes, Arapahoes, and Kiowas established their winter villages, in order to avail themselves of the supply of wood, to trade with the whites, and to feed their herds of ponies on the small limbs and bark of the cottonwood trees growing along the margin of the stream for four or five miles.
The Comanches, Kiowas, Cheyennes, Sioux, Arapahoes, Acaddas, and other tribes, with Colonel Boone, arrived at a complete understanding, and for about two years the Indians were kindly disposed toward the Whites, or as long as Colonel Boone's administration as Indian Agent existed. Any one then could cross the plains without fear of molestation from the Indians.
There were brave men there who would gladly try it had they any skill in such matters, but that was lacking. "If any man in the command could 'make it, that man was Ray." He was cool, daring, keen; he was their best and lightest rider, and no one so well know the country or better knew the Cheyennes. Wayne even wished that Ray might volunteer.
That thought has bothered me ever since I pulled out of Cheyenne. It seems to me that there is going to be a big fight somewhere in these hills before long. I 've seen a lot of Indians riding north within the last four days, and they were all bucks, rigged out in war toggery, Sioux and Cheyennes.
Eighty miles of rough country to ride over before they could strike the line on which the Cheyennes were moving, and then the th could speak for themselves.
All the landmarks were shrouded and changed; they headed south and easterly by the stars and at daybreak were obliged to hide in a hurry, for they somehow were running right into the main village of the Cheyennes! They had come ten miles from their arroyo, and were at the South Republican River in western Kansas.
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