. The white Indian boy : the story of Uncle Nick among the Shoshones. fresh horses to be prepared at any minuteto strike out after the Indians if it was necessary. In the spring, when Mr. Kennedy was about to startwith his horses for Salt Lake, the herder was fired on onemorning as he was driving the band out to grass. TheIndians then closed in behind the horses and headed themtowards the hills. Seven of us immediately started afterthem. I was on a lazy, old blue horse, and could notkeep up with the other boys, but Mr. Kennedy rode avery good horse. He was way ahead of the rest of usand was cr
. The white Indian boy : the story of Uncle Nick among the Shoshones. fresh horses to be prepared at any minuteto strike out after the Indians if it was necessary. In the spring, when Mr. Kennedy was about to startwith his horses for Salt Lake, the herder was fired on onemorning as he was driving the band out to grass. TheIndians then closed in behind the horses and headed themtowards the hills. Seven of us immediately started afterthem. I was on a lazy, old blue horse, and could notkeep up with the other boys, but Mr. Kennedy rode avery good horse. He was way ahead of the rest of usand was crowding the Indians pretty close. He wouldhave overtaken them in a few minutes more. Just beforehe caught up with them, however, one Indians horsefell, carrying his rider down with him. As Kennedycharged on the Indian to run over him, he received anarrow in the arm; but the Indian got a bullet throughthe head in return. Kennedy had to wedt until we cameup to pull the arrow out of his arm. By that time the Indians had the horses in a box canyon. The Pony Express 153. Finley and Bohlman A coyote, an animal often seen on the desert, along the Pony Expresstrail. See Mark Twains description of the coyote, in Roughing It. A few of the thieves hid among the rocks and held usback while the rest of the band rushed the horses up thecanyon. The canyon led south a few hundred yards,then turned sharply around a large, steep mountain andran almost directly north. A short distance furtherthe canyon turned again and opened into a large meadowabout a mile long. When we saw that we could not pass the Indians thatwere ambushing us at the rocky entrance of the canyon,Kennedy thought it would be best to go back two or threemiles and cross a low divide to get into it at the head ofthe meadow. There the canyon narrowed again. Wemight head off the Indians if we got there first. Weturned and went back about two and a half miles to goover this divide. When we neared the top of the dividethere was a cliff
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