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020 - Last Fight Between Rangers and Apaches · Six Years with the Texas Rangers, 1875 to 1881

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  Speaker 1: Chapter seventeen of Six Years with the Texas Rangers eighteen
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  Speaker 1: seventy five to eighteen eighty one. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: by Jay Randolph. Six Years with the Texas Rangers eighteen
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  Speaker 1: seventy five to eighteen eighty one by James B. Gillette,
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  Speaker 1: Last fight between Rangers and Apaches. Despite General Terassus great
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  Speaker 1: victory at Trace Castillo's as recorded in a preceding chapter,
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  Speaker 1: he did not entirely destroy all the Apaches that had
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  Speaker 1: been with Old Victorio. Nana and fifty warriors escaped and
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  Speaker 1: finally joined Geronimo in his campaign of and destruction. On
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  Speaker 1: the night preceding the battle in which Victorio was killed
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  Speaker 1: and his band of warriors exterminated, twelve breys with four
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  Speaker 1: squaws and four children deserted the old chief and made
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  Speaker 1: their way to those rough mountains that fringe the Rio
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  Speaker 1: Grande in the vicinity of Eagle Springs. At once this
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  Speaker 1: band of twenty Indians began a series of pillages and
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  Speaker 1: murders that has no parallel considering the small size of
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  Speaker 1: the party. The little band of Apaches soon appeared at
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  Speaker 1: Pasoviego and began their depredations by an attack on Lieutenant
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  Speaker 1: Mills and his cavalry. Pasoviego is a gap in the
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  Speaker 1: mountains that parallel the Rio Grande from Eagle Mountains on
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  Speaker 1: the west to Bright's Ranch on the east, and is
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  Speaker 1: situated ten or twelve miles west of and in plain
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  Speaker 1: view of the present little town of Valentine, Texas, on
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  Speaker 1: the g H and SA Railroad. The tribe of Pueblo
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  Speaker 1: Indians has lived in the old town of Isleda, El
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  Speaker 1: Paso County, Texas for more than three hundred years. They
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  Speaker 1: have always been friends to the Americans and inveterate enemies
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  Speaker 1: to the Apaches. It was customary, therefore, for the United
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  Speaker 1: States troops at Fort Davis to employ the Pueblos as
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  Speaker 1: guides during the Indian disturbances along the border in eighteen
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  Speaker 1: eighty one. Bernardo and Simon Olgan, two brothers, were the
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  Speaker 1: principal chiefs of this tribe. Bernardo was the elder and
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  Speaker 1: looked it. Both chiefs dressed in the usual Indian fashion,
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  Speaker 1: wore moccasins, buckskin leggings, and had their long black hair
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  Speaker 1: braided and hanging down the back. Simon was a very
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  Speaker 1: handsome Indian, and he with four of his tribe, all
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  Speaker 1: nephews of his I think, were employed by General Grierson
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  Speaker 1: during the troublesome times of eighteen eighty to eighteen eighty one.
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  Speaker 1: Simon and his four scouts had been detailed to make
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  Speaker 1: scouts down on the Rio Grande with Lieutenant Mills, commander
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  Speaker 1: of the tenth United States Cavalry Colored. On their way out,
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  Speaker 1: the troops reached Pasoviego early in the evening, and after
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  Speaker 1: they had eaten supper, Simon Olgan advised the lieutenant to
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  Speaker 1: move out on the open plains three or four miles
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  Speaker 1: north of the pass, where they would be safe from attack.
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  Speaker 1: Olgan declared Pasoviego was a favorite camping place for the
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  Speaker 1: Indians going to and returning from Mexico because of the
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  Speaker 1: fine water and good grass. He stated that should a
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  Speaker 1: band of Redskins appear at the pass during the night
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  Speaker 1: and find it occupied by soldiers, they would attack at
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  Speaker 1: daylight and probably kill some of the troopers. Lieutenant Mills,
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  Speaker 1: fresh from West Point, replied that he was not afraid
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  Speaker 1: of Indians and did not propose to move. During the night,
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  Speaker 1: the little band of twenty eight Apaches reached the pass
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  Speaker 1: just as Olgan had prophesied, and hid themselves in the rocks.
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  Speaker 1: The next morning, the soldiers had breakfast packed their mules,
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  Speaker 1: and as they were standing by their horses ready for
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  Speaker 1: the order to mount, a sudden fusillade of bullets was
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  Speaker 1: fired into their midst at short range. Other volleys came
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  Speaker 1: in quick succession. At the very first fire that grand
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  Speaker 1: old Indian Simon Olgan was shot down and killed, as
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  Speaker 1: were five or six of the Negro cavalry. The remainder
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  Speaker 1: of the company thereupon fled, but the four Preblo scouts,
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  Speaker 1: Olgan's nephews took to the rocks and fought until they
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  Speaker 1: had routed the Apaches and saved the bodies of their
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  Speaker 1: beloved uncle and the soldiers from falling into the hands
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  Speaker 1: of the attackers to be mutilated. Repulsed at Pasoviego, the
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  Speaker 1: twenty Apaches next appeared at Bass Canyon, a gap in
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  Speaker 1: the mountains on the overland stage road about twelve or
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  Speaker 1: fourteen miles west of Van Horn. Here, the Redskins waylaid
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  Speaker 1: an immigrant train on its way to New Mexico. At
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  Speaker 1: the very first fire of the Indians, Missus Graham, who
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  Speaker 1: was walking, jumped upon the tongue of the wagon and
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  Speaker 1: reached for a winchester, but was shot and killed. A
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  Speaker 1: man named Grant was killed at the same time while
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  Speaker 1: mister Graham had his thigh broken. From Basque Canyon. The
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  Speaker 1: Indians turned south, crossed around the east end of the
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  Speaker 1: Eagle Mountains, and again entered Old Mexico, where they were
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  Speaker 1: for a time lost to view. We next hear of
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  Speaker 1: this band at Ojo Caliente, some hot springs on the
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  Speaker 1: Rio Grande, southwest from Eagle Mountains. A captain of cavalry
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  Speaker 1: with some colored troops near Old Fort Quitman detailed seven
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  Speaker 1: men and instructed the sergeant in charge to scout down
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  Speaker 1: the river as far east as Basque Banita, keep a
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  Speaker 1: sharp lookout for Indian signs, and report back to camp
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  Speaker 1: in one week. These troopers followed orders, and on their
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  Speaker 1: return journey, camped for the night at Ojo Caliente. Next morning,
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  Speaker 1: at break of day, the soldiers were preparing to cook
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  Speaker 1: breakfast when the apaches fell upon them and killed all
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  Speaker 1: save one. At their first assault. This single survivor made
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  Speaker 1: his escape on foot, and after two days in the
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  Speaker 1: mountains without food, finally reached the soldier camp and reported
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  Speaker 1: to his captain. The Indians evidently located the soldier's scout
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  Speaker 1: the evening before, but as they never make a night attack,
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  Speaker 1: waited until daylight to massacre their victims. The Redskins captured
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  Speaker 1: all the soldiers equipment and baggage, including seven horses and
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  Speaker 1: two pack mules. They pillaged the camp and took everything
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  Speaker 1: movable away with them before resuming their journey. The Apaches
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  Speaker 1: took six stake pins made of iron and about twenty
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  Speaker 1: inches long that were used by the soldiers to drive
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  Speaker 1: into the ground as stakes to which the fat and
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  Speaker 1: their horses, and drove one through each soldier's corpse, pinning
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  Speaker 1: it firmly to the earth. The captured stock was killed
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  Speaker 1: and eaten for the soldier's animals were fat, while most
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  Speaker 1: of the ponies and little mules of the Apaches were
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  Speaker 1: worn out by constant use in the mountains and consequently
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  Speaker 1: very poor. This band was not heard of again for
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  Speaker 1: nearly two months until the warriors set upon the stage
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  Speaker 1: at Quitman Canyon and killed the driver Morgan and the
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  Speaker 1: gambler Crenshaw, a passenger. The reports about this stage robbery
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  Speaker 1: and murder were so conflicting, and the impression so strong
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  Speaker 1: that the driver and the passenger had themselves robbed the
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  Speaker 1: stage and made Indian signs to avert suspicion that Captain
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  Speaker 1: Baylor deemed it best to go down to the canyon
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  Speaker 1: and investigate for himself. Accordingly, the Captain made a detail
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  Speaker 1: of fourteen privates and one corporal, and with ten days
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  Speaker 1: rations on two pack mules, left to Sleeda on January sixteenth,
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  Speaker 1: to ascertain, if possible, whether the stage had been robbed
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  Speaker 1: and the driver and passenger killed by Indians or by
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  Speaker 1: white men, and to punish the robbers if they could
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  Speaker 1: be caught, to keep down disorder and violence threatened at
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  Speaker 1: El Paso. The Captain left me in a detail of
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  Speaker 1: three men in our camp at Eslda. At Quitman, Captain
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  Speaker 1: Baylor learned that the trail of the stage robbers bore
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  Speaker 1: southwest to Ojo Caliente, and as the foothills equipment mountains
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  Speaker 1: are very rough, he went down the north bank of
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  Speaker 1: the Rio Grande, as he felt quite certain he would
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  Speaker 1: cut signs in that direction about twenty five miles below quitman,
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  Speaker 1: he struck the trail of a freshly shod mule, two
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  Speaker 1: barefooted ponies, and two unshod mules, and within fifty yards
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  Speaker 1: of the trail he found the kid glove, thought to
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  Speaker 1: have been crenshaws. The trail now bore down the river
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  Speaker 1: and crossed into Mexico, where the Indian band made its
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  Speaker 1: first camp. Captain Baylor followed and the next day found
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  Speaker 1: the apache's second camp, near the foothills of the Los
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  Speaker 1: Pinos Mountains, where we had left General Tarasus the fall before.
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  Speaker 1: Here all doubts about the Indians were dispelled, as the
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  Speaker 1: rangers found a horse killed with the meat taken as food,
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  Speaker 1: and a pair of old moccasins. Besides, the camp was
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  Speaker 1: selected on a high, bare hill after the custom of
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  Speaker 1: the Indians. The same day Captain Baylor found another camp
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  Speaker 1: and a dead mule, and on the trail discovered a
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  Speaker 1: boot top recognized as that of Morgan, the driver. Here
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  Speaker 1: also was the trail of some fifteen or twenty mules
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  Speaker 1: and ponies, quite fresh, coming from the direction of the
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  Speaker 1: Candellerio Mountains, with one small trail of three mules going
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  Speaker 1: toward the Rio Grande. The rangers passed through some very rough,
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  Speaker 1: deep canyons and camped on the south side of the
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  Speaker 1: Rio Grande, this being their second night in Mexico. Next morning,
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  Speaker 1: the trail crossed back into Texas, going toward Major Carpenter's
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  Speaker 1: old camp above the Bosque Bonito. The scouting party found
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  Speaker 1: a camp where the Indians had evidently made a cash,
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  Speaker 1: but Captain Baylor only teared here a short time and
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  Speaker 1: followed on down the river a few miles when he
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  Speaker 1: found the Apaches had struck out on a bee line
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  Speaker 1: for the Eagle Mountains. The captain felt some hesitation about
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  Speaker 1: crossing the plains between the Eagle Mountains and the Rio
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  Speaker 1: Grande in the daytime, for fear of being seen by
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  Speaker 1: the Indians, but as the trail was several days old,
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  Speaker 1: he took the risk of being discovered. He camped within
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  Speaker 1: three or four miles of the mountains, and at daybreak
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  Speaker 1: took the trail up a canyon leading into the peaks.
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  Speaker 1: The party came suddenly upon an Apache camp which had
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  Speaker 1: been hastily deserted that morning for the Indians left blankets, quilts, buckskins,
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  Speaker 1: and many other things useful to them They had just
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  Speaker 1: killed and piled up in camp two horses and a mule,
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  Speaker 1: the blood of which had been caught in ten vessels.
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  Speaker 1: One mule's tongue was stewing over a fire, and everything
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  Speaker 1: indicated the Redskins were on the eve of a jolly
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  Speaker 1: war dance. For the rangers found a five gallon can
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  Speaker 1: of mescal wine and a horse skin sunk in the
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  Speaker 1: ground that contained fifteen or twenty gallons. More. Here, Captain
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  Speaker 1: Baylor found the mate to Morgan's boot top and a
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  Speaker 1: bag made from the legs of the passenger's pantaloons, besides
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  Speaker 1: express receipts, postal cards, and other articles taken from the stage.
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  Speaker 1: The night before had been bitterly cold, and the ground
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  Speaker 1: had frozen hard as flint rock, so the rangers could
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  Speaker 1: not get the trail, though they searched the mountains every direction,
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  Speaker 1: and the three Pueblo Indians, Bernardo Olgan, Domingo Olgan, and
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  Speaker 1: Atasetta Duran, looked over every foot of the ground. The
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  Speaker 1: scouting party now turned back toward Mexico to scout back
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  Speaker 1: on the west side of the Eagle Mountains around to
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  Speaker 1: Eagle Springs in search of the trail. At Eagle Springs.
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  Speaker 1: As good luck would have it, Captain Baylor learned that
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  Speaker 1: Lieutenant Neville and nine men had just gone toward Quitman
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  Speaker 1: to look for him. As soon as Lieutenant Neville returned
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  Speaker 1: to the springs, he informed Baylor that he had seen
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  Speaker 1: the trail six miles east of Eagle Springs and that
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  Speaker 1: it led toward the Carrizo Springs or Diablo Mountains. Captain
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  Speaker 1: Baylor's rations were out and Lieutenant Neville had only supplies
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  Speaker 1: enough to do the combined force five days, but the
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  Speaker 1: two commanders trusted either to catch the Indians or get
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  Speaker 1: in striking distance of the Pecos settlements within that time.
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  Speaker 1: The Apaches made pretty good time across the plain in
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  Speaker 1: front of Eagle Springs, and did not seem to recover
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  Speaker 1: from their scare until they reached the Diablo Mountains. Here
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  Speaker 1: they killed and cooked meat from one horse, and obtained
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  Speaker 1: water by melting snow with hot rocks. The trail led
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  Speaker 1: northward by Chilli Peak, a noted land to be seen
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  Speaker 1: from Eagle Station. Here the rangers quit the trail and
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  Speaker 1: went into the Diablo Mountains to camp at Apache Tanks,
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  Speaker 1: where General Grierson cut off Victorio from the Guadalupe Mountains
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  Speaker 1: the summer before next morning, Captain Baylor followed the trail
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  Speaker 1: north and camped on the brow of cliffs overlooking Rattlesnake Springs.
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  Speaker 1: The sign now led to the edge of the Sierra Diablo,
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  Speaker 1: where the Indians camped and slept for the first time
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  Speaker 1: since leaving Eagle Mountains. They were still watchful, as they
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  Speaker 1: were near a most horrible looking canyon, down which they
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  Speaker 1: could have disappeared had the scouting party come upon them.
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  Speaker 1: Their next camp was about ten miles farther on, and
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  Speaker 1: Captain Baylor saw they were getting more careless about camping.
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  Speaker 1: On the twenty eighth he came across another horse and
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  Speaker 1: fire where the Apaches had eaten some meat. The leg
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  Speaker 1: of the horse was not yet stiff, and blood dropped
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  Speaker 1: from one when picked up. The chase was getting to
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  Speaker 1: be exciting, and Captain Baylor and his men felt their
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  Speaker 1: chance to avenge the many outrages committed by this band
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  Speaker 1: was now near at hand. The trail led off north
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  Speaker 1: as though the Redskins were going toward the Carnudos in
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  Speaker 1: New Mexico, but turned east and entered Diablo Sierra Mountains.
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  Speaker 1: In a narrow gorge. The rangers found where the Indians
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  Speaker 1: had eaten dinner, using snow to quench their thirst, but
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  Speaker 1: their horses had no water. From this camp, the Apaches
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  Speaker 1: made for the cliffs on the northeast side of Devil Mountains.
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  Speaker 1: The scouting party now felt the Indians were nearby, as
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  Speaker 1: they were nearly all afoot The danger of being discovered
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  Speaker 1: if they passed over the hills during the daylight was
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  Speaker 1: so apparent that the rangers decided to make a dry
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  Speaker 1: camp and pass the mountain's brow before the day. Next morning,
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  Speaker 1: all the signs were good for a surprise, the trail
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  Speaker 1: was not over two hours old, and a flock of
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  Speaker 1: doves passing overhead going in the direction of the trails
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  Speaker 1: showed that water was near by. The morning of the
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  Speaker 1: twenty ninth of January, the party was awakened by the
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  Speaker 1: guard and passed over the mountain's brow before daylight. There
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  Speaker 1: was some difficulty in picking up the trail, though Captain Baylor,
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  Speaker 1: Lieutenant Neville, and the Pueblo trailers had been up the
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  Speaker 1: evening before spying out the land. By stooping down with
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  Speaker 1: their faces close to the ground, the Pueblos got the
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  Speaker 1: trail leading north along the crest of the mountains. Soon
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  Speaker 1: the Indian guide said in low voices Oi Esta Loos Indias,
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  Speaker 1: and Captain Baylor perceived the Apaches camp fires not over
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  Speaker 1: half a mile distant. Leaving a guard of five men
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  Speaker 1: with the horses, the rangers advanced stealthily on foot. By
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  Speaker 1: taking advantage of the crest of the mountain, they crept
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  Speaker 1: within two hundred yards of the camp, supposing the Indians
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  Speaker 1: were camped on the western slope of the hill. The Apaches, however,
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  Speaker 1: were cautious enough to put one t evp on the
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  Speaker 1: eastern slope, overlooking the valley and the approaches from that direction.
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  Speaker 1: Captain Baylor thereupon ordered Sergeant Corruthers of Lieutenant Nevill's company
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  Speaker 1: to take seven men and make a detour to the
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  Speaker 1: left and attack that wigwam while Lieutenant Neville and himself
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  Speaker 1: with seventeen men, advanced on the eastern camp, sheltering themselves
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  Speaker 1: behind some large Spanish dagger plants and advancing an Indian file.
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  Speaker 1: The attackers got within one hundred yards of the enemy,
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  Speaker 1: who was apparently just out of bed, for it was
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  Speaker 1: then sunrise. Halting the men deployed to the right and left,
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  Speaker 1: and then kneeling, the rangers gave the astonished Indians a
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  Speaker 1: deliberate volley. At the second fuselade, the Apaches broke and fled,
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  Speaker 1: the rangers, charging the flying foe with a Texas yell,
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  Speaker 1: Sergeant Carruthers executed his orders in gallant style. The Apaches
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  Speaker 1: on his side, alarmed and surprised by the fire of
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  Speaker 1: Captain Baylor's force, huddled together and three were killed within
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  Speaker 1: twenty yards of their camp fire. The Redskins ran like
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  Speaker 1: deer and made no resistance, for it was each man
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  Speaker 1: for himself. Nevertheless, as they fled, they were thickly peppered,
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  Speaker 1: as there were but two or three of the party
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  Speaker 1: of sixteen or eighteen, but left blood along their trail
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  Speaker 1: as they ran off. One Indian the rangers named Bigfoot
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  Speaker 1: from his enormous track, ran up the mountain in full
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  Speaker 1: view for four hundred yards, and not less than two
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  Speaker 1: hundred shots were fired at him, but he passed over
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  Speaker 1: the hill. Sergeant Carruthers and several men pursued the fugitive
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  Speaker 1: for a mile and a half and found plenty of
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  Speaker 1: blood all the way. Another warrior was knocked down and
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  Speaker 1: lay as though dead for some time, but finally regained
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  Speaker 1: his feet and made two forty time over the hills
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  Speaker 1: with a running accompaniment of Springfield and Winchester balls. One
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  Speaker 1: brave stood his ground manfully principally because he got the
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  Speaker 1: gable end of his head shot off early in the action.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, the women were the principal sufferers, as it
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  Speaker 1: was a bitterly cold, windy morning, and all ran off
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  Speaker 1: with blankets about them. Few of the rangers could tell
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  Speaker 1: braves from squaws, and in the confusion of battle, two
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  Speaker 1: women were killed and one mortally wounded. Two children were
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  Speaker 1: killed and a third shot through the foot. One squaw
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  Speaker 1: with three bullets in her hand and two children were captured.
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  Speaker 1: Seven mules and nine horses, two Winchester rifles, one Revington carbine,
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  Speaker 1: one United States Cavalry pistol, and one forty caliber double
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  Speaker 1: action colts. Six United States Cavalry saddles taken from the
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  Speaker 1: troops killed at Ojo Caliente, and some women's and children's
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  Speaker 1: clothing American maid evidently those of Missus Graham, a Mexican
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  Speaker 1: saddle with a bullet hole in it and fresh blood thereon,
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  Speaker 1: and over one hundred and fifty yards of New Calico
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  Speaker 1: fell as spoils to the victors. All the indians camp
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  Speaker 1: equipage was burned. The victorious rangers breakfasted on the battleground,
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  Speaker 1: as they had eaten nothing since dinner the day before.
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  Speaker 1: Some of the men found horse meat good, while others
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  Speaker 1: feasted on venison and roasted mescal. The band of Scouts
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  Speaker 1: could not remain long at this camp, for water was
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  Speaker 1: very scarce. They had forty head of stock to care for,
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  Speaker 1: and the Indians in their flight ran through the largest
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  Speaker 1: pool of water and liberally dyed it with their blood.
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  Speaker 1: And as none of the men were bloodthirsty enough to
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  Speaker 1: use this for making coffee or bread, they were short
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  Speaker 1: of water. However, the rangers found enough pure good water
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  Speaker 1: for their use, but the horses had to wait until
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  Speaker 1: the force reached Apache tanks, thirty miles distant. This scarcity
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  Speaker 1: of water made it impossible to remain at this packa
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  Speaker 1: otherwise Captain Baylor could have added three or four scalps
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  Speaker 1: to his trophies. The return march was begun and at
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  Speaker 1: Eagle Station, Lieutenant Neville and Captain Baylor separated the captured
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  Speaker 1: squaw and the two children were sent to Fort Davis
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  Speaker 1: to be turned over to the post commander for medical attention,
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  Speaker 1: for the Rangers had neither a surgeon nor a hospital.
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  Speaker 1: On their return from the Battle of the Diablos, Captain
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  Speaker 1: Baylor's Pueblo Indian Scouts, Chief Bernardo Olgan, Domingo Olgan, and
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  Speaker 1: Anisetta Duran suddenly halted about one mile from Isleta, unsaddled
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  Speaker 1: and unbridled their tired little ponies and went into camp.
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  Speaker 1: This was their custom after a successful campaign against their
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  Speaker 1: Apache enemies, so that their comrades might come out in
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  Speaker 1: due honor to the returning heroes. For three days and nights,
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  Speaker 1: a feast and a scalp dance was held by the
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  Speaker 1: whole of the Pueblo tribe of Isleta. They feasted, whined,
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  Speaker 1: and dined their returning warriors, and invited the Rangers to
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  Speaker 1: the festivities. The boys all went and reported they had
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  Speaker 1: a fine time generally. This celebration was the last scalp
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  Speaker 1: dance the Pueblo Indians ever had. For the destruction of
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  Speaker 1: the Apaches in the Diablos exterminated the wild Indians and
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  Speaker 1: there were no more of them to scalp end of
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  Speaker 1: Chapter seventeen.