There were no Indians in this picture.

Dragging Canoe, who had uttered his bloody prophecy, had by these very men been driven far south into the caves of the Tennessee River.

But the Indian prophecy still hung over them, and in this day with a heavier menace.

Not with money, now, were they to seal their purchase of the free land by the western waters.

There had been no women in that other picture, only the white men who were going forward to open the way and the red men who were retreating.