The killing took place in a dry run leading down to the Platte, and the widowed squaw seemed .quite proud of the fact that it took so distinguished a man as Colonel W. F. Cody to kill her man and chief.

Captain Clark, who later figured conspicuously in western Nebraska history, says that Whirlwind told him that the dates of the Horse Creek Councils marked the division of the Cheyenne and the Sioux, but there had been earlier troubles of which he perhaps was unaware.

The number four seems to run to the Cheyennes, which perhaps some mystic may be able to explain. They had four chiefs, four halts before they charged into the preliminary march of the Sun dance, four times is the covering of the medicine sweat house raised, four winters they starved, etc.

After the Laramie conference, Colonel Kearney visited a village of about thirty lodges on the Chugwater, and went on south to the Arkansas. Dunn says that he sought to give the Indians an impression of power or authority, or to scare them, by sending up rockets, but there seems to have been no foundation for the story, in the official reports.

INDIAN WAR AND LEGEND -- THE STORY TELLER

Years ago, on the banks of the White river, an old Indian story teller sat by the fire, telling his midnight tales. And he said: "My story winds as winds a river, sometimes on one side of the valley, and sometimes on the other side, and sometimes turning backward for a distance, then turning again to continue its journey onward to the Big Water." So, while these events, and the chronicles thereof, move steadily forward with the years, they will occasionally hark back to earlier dates.