While it was beyond the attainment of human endeavor for him to make an end of wars on the frontiers, yet he averted many and did a degree of good which is beyond all calculation.
"I was in the insignificant settlement of Denver, in the autumn of 1860," said A.L.Worthington, "when a party of Arapahoes, Cheyennes and Comanches returned from an expedition against the tribe of mountain Indians know as the Utes.

The allied forces were most beautifully whipped and were compelled to leave the mountains in the greatest hurry for their lives.

They brought into Denver one squaw and her half dozen children as prisoners.

The little barbarians, when the other youngsters came too near or molested them, would fight like young wild cats.

The intention of the captors, as I learned, was to torture the squaw and her children to death.