Thrilling adventures among the Indians: comprising the most remarkable personal narratives of events in the early Indian wars, as well as of incidents in the recent Indian hostilities in Mexico and Texas . av-ing fifteen dead on the field and carrying away a stilllarger number, together with all their Mexican prisoners were recovered and restored 14 106 THRILLING ADVENTURES. to liberty, and a herd of one thousand horses andmuleSj were apportioned, as far as practicable, to theiroriginal owners In this affair Captain Reid was the only Americanwounded, although some of his men had r
Thrilling adventures among the Indians: comprising the most remarkable personal narratives of events in the early Indian wars, as well as of incidents in the recent Indian hostilities in Mexico and Texas . av-ing fifteen dead on the field and carrying away a stilllarger number, together with all their Mexican prisoners were recovered and restored 14 106 THRILLING ADVENTURES. to liberty, and a herd of one thousand horses andmuleSj were apportioned, as far as practicable, to theiroriginal owners In this affair Captain Reid was the only Americanwounded, although some of his men had receivedarrows in their clothes. Throughout the battle hewas ably assisted by Lieutenants Gordon, Spruel, andWinston. A Mexican horseman assisted during theskirmish, and with his lasso dragged down and killedtwo Indians. The medicine man of the Lipans waskilled and left upon the field—a loss, no doubt,severely felt by the savages. During the day, theprefect of Parras waited upon Captain Reid, with anofficial document from the authorities and citizens ofthat place, expressing their admiration and gratitudefor his noble conduct, and their sympathy on hearingof his wound. FIGHT OF COLONEL KINNEY. 107. CORPUS CHRIST I. Corpus Christi, rendered classic ground by its con-nection with the history of General Taylors first Mex-ican campaign, was settled by Colonel H. L. Kinney in1838. He established there a trading post, whichwas long known among the Texans as KinneysEanch. Being the extreme frontier settlement, itwas exposed to the incursions of the Lipan and Ca-manche Indians, which obliged the proprietor to lead,from the time of settlement until the Mexican war,a life of constant vigilance and battle. He was oneof the calm, fearless men, peculiarly fitted by naturefor a life of wild adventure; and his many exploitsamong the Indians would afford materials for a mostexciting narrative. One of these, the subject of our 108 THRILLING ADVENTURES. story, is his skirmish with a party of Ca
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