General Mills

Mills stands among the officers under whom Cody served as scout and guide during the Indian campaigns that fill the book's middle chapters. His authority rests on discipline and military protocol, a world apart from Cody's improvisational plains skills, and that gap between formal command and frontier knowledge is the quiet tension running through their work together. He matters because the campaigns he leads give Cody's scouting its purpose and its stage, turning personal daring into service the army could not easily replace.