Thirty years on the frontier . you are wearing your scalps, hecontinued after a pause of several minutes. At that moment the old mans half Indianboy and myself came up from the corral. This incident furnished the cause for anugly Indian fight which occurred on Rockcreek, northeastern Colorado, on June 12,1877. **Doc Kinnie, Charley Hayes and myselfhad come from Deadwood to Cheyenne as anescort for a stage coach carrying the Wells-Fargo express, when Stephenson offered usbetter pay to work on his cattle ranch. Four days before the incident of the bloodyhead, Stephenson had missed seven head ofc
Thirty years on the frontier . you are wearing your scalps, hecontinued after a pause of several minutes. At that moment the old mans half Indianboy and myself came up from the corral. This incident furnished the cause for anugly Indian fight which occurred on Rockcreek, northeastern Colorado, on June 12,1877. **Doc Kinnie, Charley Hayes and myselfhad come from Deadwood to Cheyenne as anescort for a stage coach carrying the Wells-Fargo express, when Stephenson offered usbetter pay to work on his cattle ranch. Four days before the incident of the bloodyhead, Stephenson had missed seven head ofcattle and had struck the trail of one Indianwho had driven them off. He rode to theranch house in high rage and offered Kinnieand Hayes one hundred dollars if they wouldrecover the cattle and kill the Indian. In fiveminutes they were in their saddles riding tothe point where Stephenson indicated thetrail. I did not join them, as Stephenson in-sisted that two were enough. Kinnie andHayes had no difficulty in following the trail. Charles Hayes, Doc Kinnie, Robert McReynolds. After the Fight (page 40). THIETY YEARS ON THE FRONTIER. 41 of the stolen cattle and were close on themthe next evening. Not caring for a night at-tack they went into camp, eating their baconraw rather than make a fire. They were intheir saddles at the first grey streak of dawnand within an honr came npon two Indianseating their morning meal in a canon, whilethe missing cattle were grazing five hun-dred yards beyond. It was a complete surprise to the Indians,and in the melee that followed one of themwas killed and the other made his escape. Itthen became a question of how best to proveto Stephenson that they had killed the Indianwithout the burden of taking him back. Kinnie, who had been a medical student inOhio before a certain escapade had causedhim to emigrate to the west, suggested theamputation of the dead Indians head as thehandiest way, and also suggested that theykeep quiet as to the Indian who got aw
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