“A camp of Indians leaving an enemy in the rear,–journeying towards the river,–ford it…and then recross. This stratagem is effected to baffle their pursuers,–throw them out,–and afford no clue to their whereabouts.” (Ross, 127) Although Miller’s description imparts a deliberate sense of evasion, haste, and danger, the work above conveys a slow, calm, and ordered decampment and crossing. Nomadic Plains tribes relied upon their mobility-bound relationships with their dogs, horses, and mules in order to relocate their communities. Miller’s depiction shows these relationships in motion: the dogs swimming with packs tied on their backs, the mules carrying belongings and teepee poles, and the horses carrying their passengers and leading strings of other mules and horses across the wide river. These relationships were essential to the aspatial organization of the Plains tribes, who lived in a “world of seasonal movements and geographic fluidity,” (Wolfart, 126) which allowed them a more nimble and defensive response to threats near their communities.