Battle with soldier and wagoner showing tracks
Ethnographic Notes
Three White men were killed on a wide trail and overrun by a large war party. Two lines of Indian horsemen were hidden along each side of the road, when the Whites arrived. For a short time they defended themselves from the circular position shown mid-road, but were chased down and killed a short distance away. This probably documents the death of an Army hay contractor named Grull and two of his employees who were killed by Lakota on 23 September 1866, and their trampled bodies left lying in the road to Ft. C.F. Smith, a short distance from Ft. Phil Kearny, W.T. (mentioned by Margaret Carrington, Ab-sa-ra-ka, or Land of Massacre).