While the men fought in front of the tepees, the Indian women and children in the camp tried to flee. They whipped up the horses they had been hitching to wagons and ran to the northwest, or east on the road toward the shelter of the store and the post office. But most of the men and many of the women and children could not get to a wagon and the road. Instead, they ran to the south, where they could hide in a ravine that ran behind the camp.
