General Miles was glad to hear that I had been made a brigadier-general, but he was still more pleased with the fact that I knew so many Indians at the Agency.
"You can get around among them," he said, "and learn their intentions better than any other man I know." I remained with General Miles until the final surrender of the North American Indians to the United States Government after three hundred years of warfare.
This surrender was made to Miles, then lieutenant-general of the army, and it was eminently fitting that a man who had so ably conducted the fight of the white race against them and had dealt with them so justly and honorably should have received their surrender.
With that event ended one of the most picturesque phases of Western life--Indian fighting.

It was with that that I was identified from my youth to my middle age, and in the time I spent on the Plains, Indian warfare reached its greatest severity and its highest development..