By slow stages we traveled eastward by present Gallup and Chusbbito, Bear Spring, which is now called Fort Wingate. You ask how they treated us? If there was room the soldiers put the women and children on the wagons. Some even let them ride behind them on their horses. I have never been able to understand a people who killed you one day and on the next played with your children...? ”
—Very Slim Man, Navajo elder, quoted by Richard Van Valkenburgh, Desert magazine, April, 1946, p. 23
