Sitting Bull, recognized by his painted shield, charges on foot toward a ranch house with laundry hanging on a line -- a unique depiction in Plains Indian Ledger art. The telegraph line shown behind the building denotes that it was located on the road along the North Platte River, probably near Julesburg, Nebraska, where there were on-going Indian attacks during January-February, 1865. The telegraph line was pulled down and all ranches and outbuildings were burned along 100 miles of the route, in retaliation for the Sand Creek Massacre, earlier in the winter.