Unusually tall and well proportioned, even for an Indian, and possess a voice which commanded attention and obedience although it knew no word English. Iron Lightening was a natural leader of men. In the case of this Indian uprising, when the whites had been rounded up and sent to the Cheyenne reservation, it was Iron Lightening who went among urging them to forget their sins. So far as the countenance of the Indian was concerned, the order was given to the Indian to "live up to polygamy and further polygamous marriages among the Indians was in Lightening was called to the Thunder Gate station when this order was received and told he must choose between the two women with whom he was living. The commission had made with one woman, the chief replied in Indian, "he will show how impossible a lightening to separate himself from the Indian." This speech won for him his case and the two wives were retained. They lived together in harmony, one doing the cooking for the family, which among the Indians is regarded as an honor, for one week when the other came into power for a like period. Report Fine Fishing. 