This the Indians often do when pursued by an enemy, and one of their number becomes too old and feeble to travel any longer.

This squaw was recognized by John Nelson who said that she was a relative of his wife.
From her we learned that the flying Indians were known as Pawnee, Killer's band, and that they had lately killed Buck's surveying party, consisting of eight or nine men; the massacre having occurred a few days before on Beaver Creek.

We knew that they had had a fight with surveyors, as we found quite a number of surveying instruments, which had been left in the abandoned camp.

We drove these Indians across the Platte river and then returned to Fort McPherson, bringing the old squaw with us, from there she was sent to the Spotted Tail Agency.
During my absence, my wife had given birth to a son, and he was several weeks old when I returned.

No name had yet been given him and I selected that of Elmo Judson, in honor of Ned Buntline; but this the officers and scouts objected to.