"On one occasion Wolf Tusk and his band swooped down on a settlement where they knew that all
the defenders were away, and no one but women and chil-dren were left to meet them. Here one of
the most atro-cious massacres of the West took place. Every woman and child in the settlement was
killed under circumstanc-es of inconceivable brutality. The buildings, such as they were, were burnt
down, and, when the men returned, they found nothing but heaps of smouldering ruin.