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 . those sterile hills. At all events. Lieutenant Beall, by what seemed tohimself almost a direct providential interposition inhis behalf, remained wholly undiscovered; and in amoment more the Apaches were out of sight, stillpursuing the horse and his rider to the camp. Thelatter barely succeeded in escaping with his life, theIndians having overhauled him so closely, just as hereached the camp,
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 . those sterile hills. At all events. Lieutenant Beall, by what seemed tohimself almost a direct providential interposition inhis behalf, remained wholly undiscovered; and in amoment more the Apaches were out of sight, stillpursuing the horse and his rider to the camp. Thelatter barely succeeded in escaping with his life, theIndians having overhauled him so closely, just as hereached the camp, as to be able to inflict one or twoshght wounds upon him with bullets, or perhaps witharrows. As for Lieutenant Beall, he was not slow totake advantage of his good fortune; and selecting aroundabout course, he succeeded in reaching thecamp just about the time the poor fellow whom hehad saved, and the other members of the party, wereabout sallying out to obey his last request, and givehis body decent burial. Upon such an act as this it were superfluous tocomment. It is an act, however, which deserves tolive in mens recollections, like the story of a greatbattle and victory. 92 THRILLING GENERAL KEARNY. The modern reader is too apt to regard Indianattacks and their consequent evils as events belong-ing to time long since passed. In our great cities anIndian is a curiosity; the land which once knew nonebut his ancestors knows them no more; and theirsuccessors, the sons of civilization, know of the war-whoop, the midnight attack, and the burning villageonly through the medium of some dusty many at the present day cannot conceive of awild Indian; or, if they can, he is regarded as thesame degenerate, harmless being, as we see some- MASSACRE AT TAOS. 93 times exhibited in theatres and museums. It hasbeen our desire to dissipate this delusion by relatingvarious stirring events which transpired during thewar with Mexico. That great event removed manya veil
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