These Absaroke or Crow Indians are on a revenge raid. Never a tribe to run from their enemies, these Crow are out for blood and scalps. Beset by Blackfoot to the North, Sioux to the East, Cheyenne to the South and Shoshone to the West, the Crow Indians were in a constant state of war. With a territory the size of Wyoming to protect, they were aggressive defenders. They readily became friendly with the white man mainly because of the adage
" the enemy of my enemy is my friend."