It was late on Saturday afternoon when we got to the Bijou Ranch.

We were tired and our teams were tired, and we debated for some time whether we should drive ten miles further, where we would find better feed for our oxen.

We did so, though it took us till midnight; and there we rested on Sunday.

This was providential; for it was on this Sunday that the Cheyenne Indians made their memorable raid and plundered the trains, burned the ranches and stole the horses for three hundred miles along the Platte River.

They attacked the Bijou Station that we had left on Saturday, but they did not venture any nearer Denver; consequently we were safe.