If you read the pioneer correspondence of the time, they didn't like the Army officers, because they didn't play into this, 'Let's go kill the Indians' game.

The pioneers were basically clamoring to kill off the Indians or have them moved out of here.

This was the first tangible presence of the federal government or any civil authority in the Rogue Valley. Unlike, say, the stereotypical Western vision of Fort Apache, the primary mission of this fort was to protect the Indians from the whites in that period of time.

Once the gold rush came, white settlement of the Rogue Valley was a quick bloom, and conflict with the Indian population was almost instantaneous.

The Army game was just a difficult game to play. It was a consolation game with just flies in the building. I don't think either team wanted to be there, but we battled them and gutted it out. [Army] played well and made it difficult for us, but we found a way to win.

If she's caught in a circular firing squad with her own army, you let that play out a little bit.