She had been captured by the Cheyennes on the Little Blue, and after Black Foot and Two Face had purchased her the autumn before, she was compelled to such treatment that it was a wonder that she

had survived. Her husband had been killed with several others. The woman had been compelled to do the work of an ordinary squaw, and had been dragged across the Platte river with a rope, and she told tales of awful harbarities.

There was some concern about the execution of these renegades, and several of the officers and men around the fort feared a general massacre and so expressed themselves to Colonel Moonlight. But his answer was that if such an event was to take place, there would be two less very bad Indians to take part in it.

Many of us remember in our young days of reading a book entitled, "Beyond the Mississippi." It was by A. D. Richardson, of the New York Tribune. It was in the spring of 1865 that the author of this book and several other noteable people visited Fort Laramie, coming by way of "The Leavenworth and Fort Laramie Military Road," as the Overland Trail was then called. This line was along the south side of the Platte to the Fort Sedgwick Crossing (near Julesburg), thence via Wind Springs and the south side of the North Platte to the mouth of Horse Creek where it crossed to the north side and continued to a point opposite the fort.