July 19 was the day Nana and his men arrived at the wagon road skirting White Sands. Eugene Chihuahua describes his father’s encounter with Kaytennae (p.48 of Indeh) in detail that varies on some points from other versions of the event, but it’s clear scouts and hostiles knew each other and simply declined to fight on this occasion, probably because they were out of sight of Bennett and Guilfoyle.
