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 . of theconflict that ensued little is known. The Americanswere driven from their saddles, and not one escapedto tell the story. After this scene of slaughter, thesavages rifled the wagons of such things as they re-quired, and drove the mules away. For his servicesin the affair, Nahcoma was presented with a finemule, and permitted to depart. The above account, in substance, was given by Nah-co
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 . of theconflict that ensued little is known. The Americanswere driven from their saddles, and not one escapedto tell the story. After this scene of slaughter, thesavages rifled the wagons of such things as they re-quired, and drove the mules away. For his servicesin the affair, Nahcoma was presented with a finemule, and permitted to depart. The above account, in substance, was given by Nah-coma himself, on his arrival in Missouri. There ap-pears little reason to doubt it, since the mule uponwhich he rode was recognised as one upon which agovernment officer had formerly set out for the party is supposed to have been one commandedby Captain Miller. At the same place (Walnut Creek) another partyof Americans was attacked by about one hundredArapahoe Indians, in June, 1847. The assailantsdid not succeed so well as their comrades had formerlydone. It seems that a Mr. Sharp and the wagon-master, had gone out in quest of buffaloes. Theyhad not proceeded more than three hundred yards,. MASSACRE OF AMERICAN VOLUNTEERS. 117 when they were charged by three separate parties ofsavages. Sharp fired and killed a chief; in the nextmoment he was riddled by balls and arrows, and felldead. His companion, by simply presenting his gun,kept the enemy at bay, until the party arrived to hisassistance. The Indians then retreated, carrying withthem Sharps scalp and more than sixty horses and<nules. A short time previous to this affair. LieutenantPeck, with a train party was attacked by ninety Ca-manche Indians, and lost ten horses. He then fellback and waited two days in expectation of beingjoined by other trains. He was again attacked, how-ever, and lost all his animals. This second attackresulted in a rather serious skirmish, during whichone Williams was severely lanced in the
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