 When they finally found Winneesook, Bundy shot him with his rifle and injured him severely; after being left alone, Winneesook crawled to a pine tree where Gertrude found him later dying.After Winneesook's death and burial, Gertrude and her children moved to the site; the hamlet of Big Indian later developed at that location.Local lore holds that the pine tree stood until the railroad through Big Indian was built in the 1880s.