I finally suggested that the best plan was to wait until the couriers came closer to the command, and then, just as the Indians were about to charge, to let me take the scouts and cut them off from the main body of the Cheyennes, who were coming over the divide.
"All right, Cody," said the General, "if you can do that, go ahead." I rushed back to the command, jumped on my horse, picked out fifteen men, and returned with them to the point of observation.

I told General Merritt to give us the word to start out at the proper time, and presently he sang out: "Go in now, Cody, and be quick about it.

They are going to charge on the couriers." The two messengers were not over four hundred yards from us, and the Indians were only about two hundred yards behind them.

We instantly dashed over the bluffs, and advanced on a gallop towards the Indians.

A running fight lasted several minutes, during which we drove the enemy some little distance and killed three of their number.