Looking Glass had no choice now: he was a target, and the only option was to join the flight.

Once he joined, Looking Glass quickly became the primary military and logistical leader of the march.

He was older and more experienced than most of the other leaders, and he had a confident, authoritative manner that other leaders were willing to follow.

But his confidence in his own strategic judgment, which had served the group well through much of the flight, also contributed to his most consequential error: the decision to rest at Big Hole.

Looking Glass believed they had outrun the army.