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HOSTILITIES IN 1837-1838 273 



Tbree Comanche, two men and a woman, were camped alone one 

 niglit in a tipi on the Clear fork of the Brazos [A'sese PVr, " Wooden- 

 arrowi)oint river"), in Texas, when one of them noticed somebody 

 raise the door-flap and then quickly drop it again ; he told the others, 

 and as silently and swiftly as possible they ran out, and jumping over 

 a steep bank of the creek hid themselves Just a moment before their 

 enemies returned and tired into the vacated tipi. 

 The Comanche returned the lire from their hiding 

 place and then made their escape to a Kiowa camp 

 near by. In the morning the Kiowa returned to the 

 spot, together with the Comanche, and found a dead 

 Arapaho lying where he had been shot; they scalped 

 and beheaded him, and brought the head into camp 

 dragging at the end of a reata. The old German 

 captive, Boiii-edal, then a little boy and who had been 

 with the Indians about two years, witnessed this 

 barbarous spectacle and still remembers the thrill 

 of horror which it sent through him. 



SUMMER 1838 



Gui-j)\i(iya Ha'lcota ImiMha'pa-de Pai, "Summer 

 that the Cheyenne attacked the camp on \^^oif vm.ie-wintev mi-ss- 



Head dragged. 



river." The combined warriors ot the Cheyenne and 

 Arapaho organized a great war party against the Kiowa, Coman- 

 che, and Apache, to revenge the defeats of tiie previous two years. 

 They attacked the camps of the three confederated tribes on Wolf 

 creek (Gui P^a), a short distance above where that stream joins 

 Beaver ci'eek and forms the North Canadian, in Oklahoma. They 

 killed several women who were out digging roots and some men whom 

 they found out on the prairie after buffalo, but 

 were unable to take the camp, as the Kiowa and 

 their allies sheltered themselves in holes dug in 

 the grounxl so as to form a circular breastwork. 

 Among others the Kiowa lost Gui-k'ate and 

 several other distinguished men. 



The figure shows the warriors of the three 

 confederate tribes, indicated by the tliree tipis, 

 riG.77_snmmer 1838-At. ^^jtiiju the brcastwork, with the bullets and 



talked by Cheyenne. j.i -u ii j. /i? 



arrows flying toward them, the bullets (from 

 which it is evident that the Cheyenne had some guns) being repre- 

 sented by black dots with wavy lines streaming behind to indicate 

 the motion. 



WIXTER 1838-39 



While the Kiowa were all together in their winter camp some who 

 had gone out npon the prairie discovered a party approaching. They 

 returned and gave the alarm, upon which all the warriors went out and 



