By Paul H. Carlson
Several days later 3 black squaddies rode into citadel Concho at glossy San Angelo and mentioned that the lads and officials of Troop A have been lacking and presumed useless from thirst. The “Staked Plains Horror,” because the Galveston day-by-day News referred to as it, speedy captured nationwide realization. even though lots of the infantrymen ultimately straggled again into camp, 4 had died, and others ultimately confronted court-martial for desertion. The buffalo hunters had ridden off all alone to discover water, and the surviving infantrymen had lived by way of consuming the blood in their lifeless horses and their very own urine. A regimen military scout had became catastrophe of the worst kind.
Although the failed day trip used to be largely suggested on the time, its sparse remedies since then have relied solely at the white officials’ debts. Paul Carlson has mined the courts-martial documents for testimony of the enlisted males, thoughts of a white boy who rode with the Indians, and different buried assets to supply the 1st multifaceted narrative ever released. His gripping account presents not just a fuller model of what occurred over these grim eighty-six hours but in addition a nuanced view of the interplay of infantrymen, hunters, settlers, and Indians at the Staked Plains at this poignant moment earlier than the ultimate settling of the Comanches on their reservation in Indian Territory.
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According to John R. (Johnny) Cook, who was present, the Swede, who had not been in the Indian fight, came to the defense of the hunters, and Lumpkin shot the unarmed man, breaking his arm. Willis Crawford, who had been at the fight and was cutting Oleson’s hair, intervened, and Smith ran up to them, pulled Lumpkin aside, and shot him. Lumpkin backed out of the saloon firing away, and Smith emptied his weapon into the fatally injured Iowan. 22 Meanwhile, the army had sent two expeditions in search of the Indian warriors, who were making life miserable for the bison hunters.
Many of them traded at Rath City, coming to town on a regular basis to sell their hides, purchase supplies, and take in the few attractions that existed. Carl Coke Rister wrote that the “entertainment was . . 13 How often the Griffin women came to Rath City is a matter of conjecture, for extant records do not indicate. Did they arrive weekly with the wagons? Or did they appear less often? In the spring of , James W. Stell, a bison hunter and Rath City resident of sorts, began driving a mail and express stage between Griffin and Rath City.
The men used, wrote Cook, “the tin-foil from around our plug tobacco for stars. ” The men ate. ” They condemned all Englishmen (Burns and Bradstreet excepted, they said) and damned former King George. 30 About two weeks later, on July , the hunters camped just off the Caprock in the Muchaque Peak country along Bull Creek, one of the head streams of the Colorado River. To the well-watered spot they had relocated their supply camp from Blanco Canyon. While the bulk of the tired party rested there, Harvey sent men in pairs with large field glasses onto the Llano Estacado to search for Comanches.
