This view above played a key role in the battle. If you notice there is a slight dip in the landscape at the edge of the photgraph closes to the camera. This is the namesake Summit Springs. The canyon like structure at the back of the photograph is to the east of the camp. When the Cavlary attacked the Cheyenne fled to the east to this canyon feature. While the braves fought the cavlary the women and children fled east and south. It was in these canyon breaks that Tall Bull and others were finally killed.
Near where I am standing to take these photographs are makers that will follow in subsequent pages for the white women that had been taken prisoner in Kansas. One was shot in the back while she tried to flee. She survived. The other was shot near the eye and hit in the head with a tomahawk. She would die from her wounds. The only non Indian that died from the conflict.
One man in the cavlary had his horse killed by a lighting strike while he was on it. One other was injured in the ear during the fight but was other wise ok.
