“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.
“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.