A set piece would be when Red Cloud holds a council fire to discuss the situation with the US Cavalry in Fort Phil Kearny. Crazy Horse speaks up and says that they should attack the whites. Red Cloud agrees with him. He consults the spiritual advice of a Half-Man. The Half-Man takes him to the ridges near the fort and begins running back and forth. In his convulsions, he opens and closes his hands four times. He tells Red Cloud that he is scooping up the lives of the blue soldiers and that in the chief’s next battle, a hundred enemies will fall into his hands. Red Cloud makes his battle plans to lure the cavalry over the ridge that the Half-Man ran up and down. He gives the honor of being the bait to Crazy Horse. When the battle comes, 80 blue soldiers follow Crazy Horse over the ridge.