In their flight of five hundred miles, they had, besides the damage inflicted on the settlements, fought three engagements, each time with more than twice their number, and with a total loss of only fifteen Indians killed.

From prisoners taken later, it was learned that they were trying to reach their kinsmen in Montana, where they intended to surrender if they would he allowed to remain in the north. < Itherwise they were intending to push on, and join Sitting Bull in Canada.

In the meantime, their kinsmen were on their way south in charge of the noted scout '"Ben" Clark, and he, with rare tact, diplomacy and courage, avoided the track of the raiders, and kept his own people in ignorance of what was going on, until he had them safely landed at Fort Reno, Oklahoma.

Clark, at the age of sixteen years, had accompanied General Albert Sidney Johnston to Salt Lake City, to impress the Mormons into a state of mind acknowledging that the dominion of the United States meant Utah, as well as other states. He was at Ash Hollow in the summer of 1857, when the Cheyennes attacked the wagon train and killed three of the party. This was Clark's first experience with Indians, but he later became a scout of great renown.

When Dull Knife's band reached the sand hills of Nebraska, they scattered into small bands, and the pursuit of any single band resulted in that band breaking into fragments, and if a capture was effected, it was only a single Indian. The soldiers, weary of the long chase, and the baffling tactics of the Indians, went to Fort Robinson ; and after a brief respite, together with re-enforcements of soldiers, and friendly Sioux, the pursuit was resumed