The Washita massacre of the Cheyenne was the ultimate betrayal of the white man’s promise of peace. On that terrible day troopers slaughtered women and children with wild abandon in spite of promises that their camp would be unmolested. To the survivors only one thing could avenge the tribe’s honor – the destruction of General Wesley Hazlitt, the officer who had organized the attack. And the person entrusted with the task was a young boy who had only been an infant at the time of the massacre.