They came galloping forward in a body, as if about to make a furious charge, and when close at hand opened to the right and left and wheeled in wide circles around the travelers, whooping and yelling like maniacs.

"This done their mock fury settled into a calm, and the chief, approaching the captain, who had remained warily drawn up, though informed of the pacific nature of the maneuver, extended to him the hand of friendship. The pipe of peace was smoked and now all was good fellowship.

"The Crows were in pursuit of a band of Cheyennes, who had attacked their village in the night, and killed one of their people. They had been five and twenty days on the track of the marauders, and were determined not to return home until they had sated their revenge."

This was accomplished, some fifty or sixty miles to the southward, where they surprised their enemies. The maurauders believed that they had passed out of the danger zone of pursuit, and had in a measure relaxed their vigilance.

They lost three scalps in the engagement that followed, which satisfied their pursuers. War signs were left by the Crows, as a warning forever to the Cheyennes ; and from this circumstance, Indians and whites who since have visited the ravine south of Pine Bluffs, referred to it as "Crow Creek," which name it bears today. The cow and calf with Bonneville's party came in for a full share of attention. The Indians remarked their extreme docility, and thought the calf must be "great Medicine,"