Diorama of hand-painted cast metal figurines, portraying three Indians on horseback approaching two Canadian Mounted Policemen, who are in this instance not mounted but leading their horses. The horses are about 3" high, the people 2¼"; there are two windswept trees, the tallest 7", several rocks and other terrain features. The wooden-framed base is 14¼x17½".

Sitting Bull, nemesis of George Armstrong Custer, escapes into Canada in the fall of 1876. This diorama won the Garry Owen Award for the best display of the American West at the 38th annual exhibition of the Miniature Figurine Collectors of America, March 10th, 1979, as written on the back by Bookwalter, who has also titled and signed the piece, and indicated it was "For John M. Carroll," the noted Custer scholar and collector.