Accordingly I crept into the ravine and secreted myself there to wait till Mr.Chief came riding by.
When he was not more than thirty yards away I fired.

The next instant he tumbled from the saddle, and the horse kept on his way without a rider.

Instead of running back to the Indians, he galloped toward the soldiers, by one of whom he was caught.
Lieutenant Mason, who had been very conspicuous in the fight and had killed two or three Indians himself, came galloping up the ravine, and, jumping from his horse, secured the elaborate war-bonnet from the head of the dead chief, together with all his other accoutrements.
We both rejoined the soldiers.

I started in search of the horse, and found him in the possession of Sergeant McGrath, who had captured him.
McGrath knew that I had been trying to get the horse, and he had seen me kill its rider.

He handed the animal over to me at once.