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number of the Ute and Jicarilla Apache. According to the Indian 

 account, five persons of the allied tribes, including two women, were 

 killed. The others, after a brave resistance, flually abaudoued their 

 camp, which was burned by the enemy. Oue of those killed was a 

 young Apache warrior who wore a war-bonnet. He was shot from his 

 horse and his war-bonnet was captured by a Ute warrior. An old 

 Apache warrior, who was left behind in his tipi in the hurry of flight, 

 was also killed. 



In the Set-t'an calendar the attack upon the camp is indicated by 

 conventional bullets and arrows around two tipis above the winter 

 mark. In the Anko calendar it is indicated by a picture of the cap- 

 tured war-bonnet. 



According to the Kiowa statement, most of the younger men were 

 away on the warpath at the time, having left their fiimilies in the 

 winter camp in charge of the old chief DohAsiin. Early oue morning 

 some of the men had gone out to look for their ponies, 

 ■when they discovered the enemy creeping up to sur- 

 round them. They dashed back into camp and gave 

 the alarm, and the women, who were preparing break- 

 fast, hastily gathered up their children and ran, while 

 the men mounted their horses to repel the assault. 

 The Ute scouts advanced in Indian fashion, riding 

 about and keeping up a constant yelling to stampede 

 the Kiowa i)onies, while the soldiers came on behind 

 quietly and in regular order. Stumbling-bear was 

 one of the leading warriors in the camp at the time 

 and distinguished himself in the defense, killing one 

 soldier and a Ute, and then killing or wounding FiQ.i36-Winteri864. 

 another soldier so that he fell from his horse. Another es-ute tight. 

 warrior named Set-tiidal, "Lean-bear," distinguished himself by his 

 bravery in singing the war song of his order, the Toi'iMnko, as he 

 advanced to the charge, according to his military obligation, which 

 forbade him to save himself until he had killed an enemy. Set-k'opte, 

 then a small boy, was there also, and describes vividly how he took his 

 younger brother by the hand, while his mother carried the baby upon 

 her back and another child in her arms, and all fled for a place of 

 safety while Stumbling-bear and the warriors kept off the attacking 

 party. The Kiowa escaped, excepting the five killed, but the camp 

 was destroyed. 



The engagement is thus mentioned in the testimony of an army officer 

 a few months later : 



I understand Kit Carson last winter destroyed an Indian village. He had about 

 four hundred men with him, but the Indians attacked him as bravely as any men in 

 the world, charging up to his lines, and he withdrew his command. They had a 

 regular bugler, who sounded the calls as well as they are sounded for troo))s. Carson 

 said if it had not been for his howitzers few would have been left to tell the tale. 

 This I learned from an officer who was In the fight {Condition, 1). 



