Chapter 14

Custer is convicted and suspended from rank and pay. The Peace Commission signs a treaty with the Cheyenne; the Indians give up Kansas and agree to move to the Red River near Texas. But they go back to the Smoky Hill to hunt buffalo, and while there spring an attack on the Pawnee. The attack fails, and the frustrated Cheyenne raid a settler family, raping the women. Knowing they would be punished, the Cheyenne decide to be hanged for sheep instead of lambs, and commit a series of depredations in Kansas. Phil Sheridan comes out to stop them, and calls Custer back.