Our Wild Indians; Thirty-Three Years Personal Experience Among the Red Men of the Great West. a Popular Account of Their Social Life, Religion, Habits, Traits, Customs, Exploits, Etc. with Thrilling Adventures and Experiences on the Great Plains and in the (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: OUR WILD INDIANS. CHAPTER I. MY EARLY LITE FIRST EXPERIENCES WITH INDIANS ADVENTURES AMONG THE COMANCHES. My Early Home ?First Sight of Warriors ? A Thrill of Horror Recalled? Sudden Transformation of My Views ? A Beardless Lieutenant? The Texan Frontier ? Nights with the Comanches?Their Cunning and Treachery ? The Sleepless Foe ? A Fatal Stumble ? On a Cavalry Scout ? Adventurous Pursuit ? Surprising an Indian Camp ? Invited to be the Guest of an Indian Chief?Warned of Danger ? Outbreak of Hostilities ? Young Warriors with " Bad Hearts " ? The Bandera Pass ? An Exciting Adventure ? Separated from My Command ? Making the Best of It ? Ruined Ammunition? On the Edge of Peril ? Reconnoitring the Indian Camp ? My Flight and Pursuit?The Race for Life ? My Escape ? Rejoining My Command?Thirty Years of Indian Warfare. WAS born in western North Carolina. My earliest recollections are tinged with stories of Indian atrocities; for the Cherokees yet occupied "the land of their Fathers," and were only a short distance from us. It is true the Cherokees had committed no outrages, but their white neighbors, being in constant dread of what three or four thousand warriors might do, were vociferous in demands for their removal beyond the limits of the State. This "hue and cry" was led by some men of intelligence and position (who may have had solid 30 FIRST SIGHT OF INDIANS. pecuniary reasons for wishing to get rid of the Indians), and these so worked upon the fears of the masses of uneducated whites, that there was constant danger of rupture of peaceable relations. The negroes were especially terror-stricken, and, forgetting for the time, their usual stories of witches and ghosts, often caused my " hairs to stand on end " with their thrilling narratives of the cunning, fero...