And he records the peace mission and its fatal outcome — that she traveled toward Gros Ventre territory after the Fort Laramie Treaty, apparently hoping to make contact with the people she had been born among, and that she was killed.

The account ends there.

Denig was writing about someone who had just died, and the biographical sketch ends with her death.

What this account cannot contain: her inner life, her own understanding of her identity and her choices, her relationships with the people around her as experienced from her own perspective, the full detail of her military engagements, the content of the council deliberations she participated in, the conversations she had with her wives and her followers, and the specific ways in which Crow people who knew her understood her significance.

What it does contain: a reliable, first-hand, extended account of an exceptional life, from an observer who was unusually well-positioned to understand what he was observing.