Beecher Island

the long version

Matt Talbot was a scout with Sharp Grover and Bill Comstock at a parley with Cheyenne chief Bull Bear along the Solomon River in western Kansas. It was 1868, and the army was concerned about an uprising among the young braves. Comstock was so confident that the trio arrived unescorted. The chief would tell them nothing, but granted them safe conduct out of the camp - until the sentinels were replaced by a band of hostile braves who attacked them, killing Comstock.