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He meant th' Pecos Valley an th' Davis Mountains country. All th' rustlers would have to do if they were in th' Panhandle would be to cross th' Canadian an th' Cimarron an' hit th' trail for th' railroad. Good fords, good grass an' water all th' way, cattle fat when they are delivered an plenty of room. Th' more I thinks about it th' more I cottons to the Panhandle."
Many white people who have lived among Indians and know them well declare that an Indian is always an Indian; that, no matter how fine the veneering civilization may have given him, there ever lies dormant the traits of the savage, ready to spring forth without warning in acts of treachery and fiendish cruelty. CIMARRON REDOUBT, January, 1873.
I should have gone mad otherwise, for I was never meant for the roving chance life of a Plains scout. When our division made its tentless bivouac with the sky for a covering on the first night out beyond the Cimarron River from Camp Starvation, the mercury was twenty degrees below zero. Even a heart that could pump blood like mine could hardly keep the fires of the body from going out.
"Go down to the bunkhouse and get Weary out. Tell him to hit the breeze to Cimarron for the doctor. If the doc' don't want to come drag him by the ears!" He spurred his pony furiously to the corral gate and in a short time had saddled another horse and was back where Hazelton was awaiting him.
"And the guide?" "He gave out on the Cimarron and I came on alone." "And Custer? Did he strike Black Kettle?" "We found his camp the evening of the 26th, and attacked at daybreak the next morning. There were more Indians with him than we expected to find between two and three thousand, warriors from all the southern tribes. Their tepees were set up for ten miles along the Washita.
On the wide veranda overlooking the river everybody except one Bill Banney, sleeping under the wind-caressed sod beside the Cimarron spring was waiting to greet us.
He walked on and on for miles, when, on ascending a little divide, he saw a stream in the valley beneath him. It was the Cimarron, and he hurried toward it to quench his intolerable thirst. When he arrived at its bank, to his disappointment it was nothing but a bed of sand; the sometime clear running river was perfectly dry.
Smith escaped to be afterwards killed on the Cimarron by the Comanches. Pattie and his father again entered the Gila country in the autumn of 1827, with permission from the governor of New Mexico to trap.
They were at once pursued by General Sully with a small force, but by the time he reached the Cimarron the war-party had finished its raid on the upper Arkansas, and so many Indians combined against Sully that he was compelled to withdraw to Fort Dodge, which he reached not without considerable difficulty, and after three severe fights.
It was remarked by the bystanders that while they were drinking neither seemed to take any especial interest in the brazen pictures that constituted a feature of the Cimarron bar and were the pride of its proprietor. The next manoeuvre in the game was a proposition by Mr. Allison that they retire to the dining-room and have some oysters.
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