...place, Lieutenant Beecher, with his three scouts-Comstock, Grover, and Parr — was on Walnut Creek. Indefinite rumors about troubles on the Saline and Solomon reaching him, he immediately sent Comstock and Grover over to the headwaters of the Solomon, to the camp of a band of Cheyennes, whose chief was called Turkey leg, to see if any of the raiders belonged there; to learn the facts, and make exp...