On January 22, 1870, Major E.M.Baker, led by half-breeds who knew the country, surprised the Piegans in their winter camp on the Marias River, just below the border.

He, like Custer, attacked at dawn, opening the encounter with a general fire into the tepees.

He killed a hundred and seventy-three of the Piegans, including very many women and children, as was unhappily the case so often in these surprise attacks.

It was deplorable warfare.

But it ended the resistance of the savage Blackfeet.