. The border and the buffalo, an untold story of the southwest plains; the bloody border of Missouri and Kansas. The story of the slaughter of the buffalo. Westward among the big game and wild tribes. A story of mountain and plain . 238 THE BORDER AND THE BUFFALO. the Indians hoped that we would follow them there, wherethey could finally annihilate us, we thought our fightwith them was a good days work for us. And we learned, also, that the Apaches from the Guada-lupe Mountains, west of the Pecos river, had fled back totheir own retreat more than 100 miles away; and thatCaptain Lee had been to
. The border and the buffalo, an untold story of the southwest plains; the bloody border of Missouri and Kansas. The story of the slaughter of the buffalo. Westward among the big game and wild tribes. A story of mountain and plain . 238 THE BORDER AND THE BUFFALO. the Indians hoped that we would follow them there, wherethey could finally annihilate us, we thought our fightwith them was a good days work for us. And we learned, also, that the Apaches from the Guada-lupe Mountains, west of the Pecos river, had fled back totheir own retreat more than 100 miles away; and thatCaptain Lee had been to our battle-ground. TonkawaJohnson and his four tribesmen had trailed the Indiansto these sand-hills, to find that they had left there afterthe Apaches had abandoned them, and they had gone onwest to Laguna Plata, eight miles west of Casa Amarilla. Then Captain Lee found them at a time when most ofthe warrioi*s were out on raids; and his first duty sergeanthad been killed by old Nigger Horse himself. At the sametime the sergeant killed both Nigger Horse and his squaw,as they were trying to make their escape, both mountedupon one pony, five other warriors were killed, too. It had been a running fight for eight miles toward th
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