“A party, after a little delay, was made up…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

“A party, after a little delay, was made up and returned to the place where the fight took place, and there they found Knox’s body, and the Indians, contrary to their usual custom, had not mutilated it in the least, but had taken a clean pocket-handkerchief from Knox’s pocket and carefully spread it over his face, and had fastened it there by putting a small stone on each corner of it to hold it in its place and keep the sun from the dead man’s face. That was their tribute to the sand in Knox. Seventy empty shells were found that had been emptied from Knox’s Winchester, and one of the raiding In- dians afterward said that their party numbered forty-two, and that Knox had killed seven of them.”