Somewhere out in the bad lands, they were headed for a fort, Where they expected to be able to stay in safety for a few days, rest their teams, and give the women a chance to wash. "One afternoon they saw on a hill behind them a Indian . It was dangerous country anyway.They knew it was bad to be observed by a Indian,but there was only one......The next night this Indian was still with them. The following day this Indian came down [into camp].......He couldn't make conversation well, except they understood he wanted a musket.At home he couldn't find any buffalo. They were getting scarce and hard to hunt, and he couldn't get one with his bow and arrow. He needed the gun to shoot the buffalo because his family was hungry and needed the meat. So Casper Rickard gave him a gun and the shot for it........Everyone on the train...." thought he had made a bad mistake and a gun would be turned on them. The Indian went over the hill and was gone, but that night he came back with the musket and only one shot gone. So he handed the gun , So he handed the gun back and said he had gotten a buffalo . Then they went on . That night he was still following them, also the next two days . He told them not to stop at the fort. He said there was no one alive there except the Indians....... He said to go on past the fort. He told them how many days to travel,to go as fast as they could for three days without stopping, to travel from sunup to sundown . So they did what he said. When they got word a few days later, sure enough the fort had been attacked , and everyone was killed . Not all their experiences with Indians were as fortunate . No one in their party was injured, but they did loose some stock. Some were driven off by Indians , and those wounded by arrows were destroyed .Fearing that the arrows might have been poisoned, the men were afraid to butcher the animals and eat the meat . "They passed through Fort Laramie , Wyoming, where they met hostile Indians.They stayed at the fort for a few days until a treaty was made with the Indians." -- Linda Rogers,continued