Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . ion was to kill the Indian chief, anddemanded of his men, if any one had a charge left. The lamented(Japt. Gillespie replied that he had reserved his rifle. Dismount, then, said Hays, and make sure work of thatchief. Although speared through the body, the gallant Gillespie dis-mounted, and at the crack of his rifle, the chief fell headlong fromhis horse. Panic-struck, theIndians fled in dismay, pur-sued by the Texans, whogained a com
Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . ion was to kill the Indian chief, anddemanded of his men, if any one had a charge left. The lamented(Japt. Gillespie replied that he had reserved his rifle. Dismount, then, said Hays, and make sure work of thatchief. Although speared through the body, the gallant Gillespie dis-mounted, and at the crack of his rifle, the chief fell headlong fromhis horse. Panic-struck, theIndians fled in dismay, pur-sued by the Texans, whogained a complete the battle-field of Pier-denales lay some thirty oddof their dead; how manywere wounded, was notknown. On the part of theRangers, two were killed,and some four or fivewounded, among whom wereGillespie and Walker, since celebrated in American history, whowere both speared through the body. At another time. Hays went out with a party of some fifteen ortwenty men, upon the frontier of Texas, then many miles west of thewhite settlements, for the purpose of surveying and locating landsin the vicinity of a place well known as the Enchanted MAKING SCRE WOKK OF THE CHIEF. 232 DARING EXPLOITS Oi COLONEL JACK HAYS. We are unable to give to the reader the traditionary cause why thisplace was so named, but, nevertheless, the Indians had a great awe,amounting almost to reverence for it, and would tell many legendarytales connected with it and the fate of a few brave warriors, the lastof a tribe now extinct, who defended themselves there for manyyears as in a strong castle, against the attacks of their hostilebrethren. But they were finally overcome and totally annihilated,and ever since, the Enchanted Eock has been looked upon as theexclusive property of these phantom warriors. This is one of themany tales which the Indians tell concerning it. The rock formsthe apex of a high, round hill, very rugged and difficult of the centre there is a hollow, in the sha
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