Extract from Official report of the late Howard Schuyler, resident engineer in charge, of survey of line for Kansas Pacific Railway

"The following description of a lively skirmish with the Indians on the plains of Colorado, in 1869, is taken from the official report of the late Howard Schuyler, Resident Engineer, in charge of the survey of the Kansas Pacific Railway. The original report may be found in the collection of the States Historical Society of Colorado, at Denver"--Pref.