"On January 9, 1879, the much-suffering Cheyennes were made to bleed again, this time when a group of about a hundred and fifty non-combatants led by Dull Knife attempted to escape from confinement at Camp Robinson, Nebraska. Sick, malnourished, afoot and almost entirely unarmed, they were quickly chased down. At least eighty-five were killed—the last thirty-two by massed soldiers firing pointblank volleys into a buffalo wallow where the Indians had sought refuge—and another twenty-three wounded. As usual, the victims were mostly old men, women, and children. With equal predictability, no one was prosecuted for murdering them."