Part 2 The Seventy-Sixer, pgs. 301-353 Summary

The 20th chapter shows Flashy in hindsight admiring how smoothly Cleonie/Candy arranges his abduction, but cannot at that time figure out how she links Comber and Flashy. Only Carson and Lincoln know him as both and they are long dead. He forces himself not to panic in order to have a chance to survive. If ungagged, he could drop names in Sioux: Spotted Tail and Craze Horse. The four guards, led by Jacket, Walking Willow's brother, beat him, promise slow torture, and mock Spotted Tail as a coward. They ride toward Big Horn, hear that Crook has been defeated, but hear nothing about Custer. Finally they reach Greasy Grass, a hillside that has sprouted "a forest of lodges," the largest assembly of Indians in history, at least 10,000 braves. Jacket puts Flashy in a stinking...