In part two of Trail to Medicine Lodge provides a first-hand experience of a young freighter named Billy Dixon. Dixon describes his journey southward from Fort Harker to Fort Larned and across the Arkansas River to Medicine Lodge. During the trip, Dixon describes the sights along the Santa Fe Trail while traveling with the peace commission and a caravan of one hundred and sixty wagons, carrying food and clothing for the Indians. Once the procession crosses the Arkansas River, they encounter over ten thousand buffalos, only to be interrupted by an escort who rushed out to the peaceful grazing bison and began to shoot them. Finally, after four days of travel, when arriving at Medicine Lodge, Dixon witnesses an encampment of five thousand Indians covering the landscape of different tribes making ready for the Medicine Lodge Treaty. Click here to purchase the book Trails, Forts Treaties & Indian Wars.