For many weeks, work on the railroad had progressed steadily across the great plain without interruption, to within a mile of the little town of Bentville. Then things began to happen, beginning with an Indian attack. A week later, at Fort Hill, about twenty-five miles back along the railroad, the commanding officer, Major Ward, was talking to the captain at headquarters. It was thought that the problems with the Indians were over, but the minute the men start working that last mile into Bentville, the Indian's attack...