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THE JUNIOR HISTORIAN
The Indians had scalped her, lanced her
in sixteen or eighteen places, and
treated her brutally, but Dr. Brodie,
United States Army Surgeon at Fort
Inge, attended her and she recovered.
Henry M. Robinson and Henry
Adams, meanwhile, had started to Camp
Wood that morning, but they never
reached there. Mort Adams, Jim Gor-
don, C. H. Hutchinson, and some sol-
diers found the bodies of the two about
four miles from Adams Ranch. They
had been shot in the back and their
hearts cut out.
Ed Westfall, guide and trailer, lived
on the Leona River; he fought Indians
many times. On one occasion the lone
frontiersman was returning to his cabin
by way of a footbridge across the Le-
ona. Comanches had planned an am-
bush, but the keen eye of Westfall de-
tected an Indian across the river. When
he turned about and ran the opposite
direction, Indians followed but Westfall
found a thicket where he lay down with
his rifle ready to fire and a single shot
pistol by his side. The Comanches sur-
rounded the thicket. As he was lying
there Westfall heard the crackling of a
twig in the opposite direction from the
yelling savages. "His heart was pound-
ing violently as the brush slowly drew
apart, and the form of a burly Co-
manche appeared above him. Westfall
whipped his long rifle around almost in
the Indian's face and fired quickly,"
one report says. Westfall discovered a
little later he had shot the Indian
squarely in the center of the forehead.
The other Indians left when their com-
panion failed to return.
In another fight an Indian wounded
Westfall in the breast. Louie, who lived
with Westfall, led him to his bed and
seized a shotgun. Louie killed a Co-
manche, reloaded and shot another one,
all the time shooting from an open door.
Louie was shot the next time he took
aim.
The bullet passed entirely through the body
of the unfortunate Frenchman and then fell
in a pan on the table and rolled around in itseveral times. The bewildered Louie turned
and glanced at the bullet as it rolled about
in the pan. Then he dropped into a chair and
removed his boots, no doubt entertaining a
secret aversion to dying with them on. A
moment later he called for water and then
toppled out of the chair dead.
Westfall, after remaining in a stupor
two days and nights, crawled most of
the way to Fort Inge before he was dis-
covered and taken to the Fort for treat-
ment.
When the husbands of a Mrs. Bolin
and a Mrs. Kincheloe left to harvest a
crop of corn, the two women decided to
stay together at the Kincheloe place.
The next day Indians entered the
Kincheloe yard, dismounted, and began
shooting arrows through cracks in the
picket house. Mrs. Kincheloe could not
operate a new gun that she had. She
kept working it although she was struck
by arrows many times, but finally she
gave the gun to Mrs. Bolin, who by this
time was paralyzed with fear. As Mrs.
Kincheloe, who was bleeding profusely
from her wounds, sank to the floor, the
Indians shot Mrs. Bolin through the
heart. They ransacked the house. Johnny
Kincheloe, who was ten, took an arrow
from his mother's shoulder and went
two and one-half miles to the Snow
Ranch. Help was summoned and Grand-
ma Binion, the only white doctor in the
countr y, dressed Mrs. Kincheloe's
wounds. She lived, but carried a dozen
scars from the attack.
On the morning of July 4, 1865,
eleven men assembled and started on the
trail of a band of Indians that Ed Burle-
son had encountered. The eleven men
were Levi English, A. L. Franks, G. W.
Daugherty, A. D. Aikens, W. C. Bell,
Frank Williams, Dan Williams, Dean
Oden, Bud English, John Berry and
Burleson. In the vicinity of the Martin
Ranch the settlers discovered the In-
dians, thirty-six in number. Some of the
young and impatient men made a charge
on the savages and in a short while
the Indians had almost encircled them.
Captain Levi English pleaded with the
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