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Indians never clean their rifles, rarely get good ammunition, and are deficient in the philosophy of hind-sights. Besides this, it is not easy to shoot at long range in a constrained position from a running horse. Alfred watched them contemptuously in silence. "If they keep that up long enough, the wagon-train may hear 'em," he said, finally. "Wisht we weren't so far to nor-rard.
Then she heard voices, and as Joe turned away with a smile on his face, the unusual warmth in her heart was followed by an angry throbbing. Joe's tall figure stood out distinctly as he leisurely strolled toward the incoming wagon-train without looking backward. Flashing after him a glance that boded wordy trouble in the future, she ran into the cabin.
Then Mother Bridget and Aunty Boone would have come to me if I could only make them hear me. But the sun beat hot upon my burning face, and my swollen lips refused to moan. And then I looked to the eastward and hope sprang to life within me. A wagon-train was crawling slowly toward Pawnee Rock. Tears drenched my eyes until I could hardly count the wagons twenty, thirty, forty.
And the second was like unto it, albeit we were no longer a triangle, made up of wagon-train here and main command there, and our twenty-nine less two lost ones under Captain Jenness, at a third point. Before noon, our force was all united and we joined hands for the finish. Beverly and I rode side by side all day.
Lieutenant Bailey shot a young deer, and some wild turkeys, and we could not complain any more of the lack of fresh food. It did not surprise us to learn that ours was the first wagon-train to pass over Crook's Trail.
Fortunately we saw them in time to escape. A few days later, a wagon-train was attacked and one hundred and seventy-six men were killed, of whom sixteen were Rangers. The news of this disaster came in the night, and at two in the morning Rogers started out with a large party of regulars, provincials, and Rangers to head off the enemy.
At the close of December, 1868, a few weeks after the battle of the Washita, I was camping with my command on the bank of that historic stream in the Indian Territory, waiting with an immense wagon-train of supplies for the arrival of General Custer's command, the famous Seventh Cavalry, and also the Nineteenth Kansas, which were supposed to be lost, or wandering aimlessly somewhere in the region south of us.
In addition to his regular wagon-train, he had a big wagon which could be converted into an office, and this we used to call "Thomas's circus."
Besides, her family was not going alone, but many other families whom they knew were going at the same time, so that she would have some of her playmates with her all the way. It was a wonderful sight when the great day came at last, and the long wagon-train set out. In all there were more than forty wagons, some drawn by four or six horses, and some by as many as eight big oxen.
He reached the settlement of Parowan that night, and when they told him there that the wagon-train coming south their ancient enemies who had plundered and butchered them in Jackson County was to be cut off before it left the basin, it seemed but right to him, the just vengeance of Heaven upon their one-time despoilers, and a fitting first act in the war-drama that was now to be played.
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