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Updated: May 4, 2025

As an instance of this, he relates the following: In 1826 two young men named McNess and Monroe, having carelessly lain down to sleep on the bank of a certain stream, since known as McNess Creek, were barbarously shot, with their own guns, as it was supposed, in the very sight of the caravan. When their comrades came up, they found McNess lifeless, and the other almost expiring.

Henry Inman - The old Santa Fe trail : The Story of a Great Highway