He then describes the subsequent decades of military activity — the raids she led, the war honors she accumulated, the horses she gained, the war record she built.

He notes that the devices on her robe represented her brave acts, and that her accumulated honors had elevated her to chiefly status.

He describes her household — her wives, her material wealth, the specific way she maintained “the style of a man and chief” while wearing women’s clothing.

He describes this household with evident fascination but also with reasonable accuracy, since these were observable facts.

He notes that she sat in the Council of Chiefs and held the third-highest rank in her band of 160 lodges.