Stage three of Campbell’s monomyth begins as Chief Ten Bears instructs the village to move to its winter camp. Since his first day at Fort Sedgwick Dunbar had kept a daily journal of his activities, including guidelines to the location of the Sioux, and evidence that he has retained too much information about their ways, “In this fashion it becomes an entirely symbolic record of his metamorphosis, a map which traces his spiritual journey” (Smith). This begs the question, was he right to endanger their way of living by combining their cultures. Leaving this behind could be detrimental to their way of life if it were to fall into the wrong hands. He returns to claim his journal only to find the fort recently occupied by Army troops. Dunbar approaches
