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It was most probably a Kiowa, possibly Set-t'aiiite himself, who was 

 famous for a bugle, which instrument he blew as a signal on state 

 occasions. 



Deeming it unsafe to remain longer after destroying the first village, 

 Carson formed the troops in marching order, with skirmishers in front 

 and on the flanks and the howitzers bringing up the rear, and began 

 the return maruh. 



The enemy -ivaa not disposed to allow us to return without molestation, and in a 

 very few minutes was attacking us on every side. By setting tire to the high, dry 

 grass of the river bottom, they drove us to the foothills, and by riding in rear of 

 the lire, as it came burning toward us, they would occasionally get within a few 

 yards of the column; being enveloped in the smoke, they would deliver the lire of 

 their rifles and get out of harm's way before they could be discovered by us. 



On the side of the troops, Pettis reports two soldiers killed and 

 twenty-one wounded, several mortally, together 

 with one Ute killed and four wounded. He puts 

 the Indian loss at nearly one hundred killed and 

 between one hundred and one hundred and fifty 

 wounded. The official report, which he quotes, 

 makes the number of tipis in the village destroyed 

 about one hundred and fifty and the Indian loss 

 in killed and wounded together only sixty. Among 

 these were four crippled or decrepit old Indians, 

 who were killed in the tipis by a couple of Ute ^"'- "7- summer i865- 



Peninsula sun dance. 



squaws searching for plunder. A buggy and 



spring wagon belonging to Sierritoor "Little-mountain'' (Dohasiin) are 



also mentioned as having been destroyed. 



A signal instance of Indian bravery is noted by Pettis : 



At one of the discharges the shell passed directly through the body of a horse on 

 which was a Comanche riding at a full run, and went some 200 or 300 yards farther 

 on before it exploded. The horse, on being struck, went head foremost to earth, 

 throwing his rider, as it seemed, 20 feet into the air, with his hands and feet sprawl- 

 ing in all directions, and as he struck the earth, apparently senseless, two other 

 Indians who were near by proceeded to him, one on each side, and throwing them- 

 selves over on the sides of their horses, seized each an arm and dragged him from 

 the field between them, amid a shower of ritle balls from our skirmishers. This act 

 of the Indians in removing their dead and helpless wounded from the field is always 

 done, and more than a score of times were we eyewitnesses to this feat during the 

 afternoon {Pvttis). 



SraOIER 18G.5 



Piho K'ado, "Peninsula sun dance." It is so called because held 

 iu the peninsula or bend of the Washita on the south side, a short 

 distance below the mouth of Walnut creek {Zodiilton P\i, "Vomiting- 

 water river") within the present reservation. The Set-t'an calendar 

 represents the medicine lodge in the bend, indicated by a curved line. 

 In the Anko calendar the peninsula is more rudely indicated by a circle 

 around the base of the medicine pole. 



