Time

Some posters suggest that there is a time skip between the first man (a Harper?) Comanche Todd kills before the opening credits and the scenes where he is being hunted after the opening credits.

https://moviechat.org/tt0049434/The-Last-Wagon/58c7224b5ec57f0478ebb621/Im-confused

After the wagon train massacre Comanche Todd says it will take them 7 or 8 days to reach safety through the Canyon of Death - if they live that long. Then he takes the kids traveling 24 hours night and day, except for such rest stops as they and the horses need, for two days.

Then they stop to rest during the day late in the second or early in the third day. They seem to be at the same stop (though there might be a time skip) when they encounter and kill Apaches. Todd says they will travel at night.

There might or might not be a time skip between that scene and the next scene where they are seen traveling at night, the night of that day or a later night. Comanche Todd tells them to stop and hide. There are fires ahead in the night. One of the boys says the campfires might be cavalry. Colonel Normand had said that they would meet cavalry five days ahead and the boy says they have already traveled more than five days.

The next morning they meet cavalry and fight off 200 or 300 Apaches and seem to be safe for the rest of the trip.

What? Does two or three days equal more than five days, let alone the seven or eight days Todd mentioned, or has one of the kids lost track of time in that nightmarish experience, or are there one or more time skips since the kids left with Comanche Todd?