A hunter would dash at a warrior crouching behind some rock, and the two would begin dodging, advancing, retreating, firing, striking and manoeuvering against each other.

Sometimes one would succeed and sometimes the other.
The Blackfoot, finding the situation becoming too hot, would break for other cover and probably would be shot on the run or would escape altogether.

Again, it would be the white man who would be just a second too late in discharging his gun and would pay the penalty with his life.
At last the Indians began falling back and the mountaineers pushing them hard, they finally broke and fled in a wild panic, leaving many dead behind them.

On the part of the trappers three had been killed and quite a number badly wounded..