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Pioneer history of Bander a Countly 97
Paint Creek, a tributary to the South Llano river.
Next morning the Washington county fellows were
sick of the chase ad11 all turned back, except twoSam
Maverick and Simpson. Five or six of our
men decided to turn back also, leaving 26 of us to
follow on after the Indians. We were determined
to overtake those redskins if possible and try to annihilate
them, and resumed our chase. But the
next day twelve more of our party turned back, and
that left fourteen to continue on the trail of 100
Indians. The second night after they left us we
camped about a mile above old Fort Territt, our
horses were pretty well fagged out, our men all tired
from steady riding, and were about out of grub. We
did not know it at the moment but the night we
camped here, the Indians were camped just about a
mile further on. We found their camping place the
next morning after we resumed the chase. They
had butchered and barbecued a horse, and used the
paunch to carry a supply of water in. We discovered
from their preparations that they intended
making a long dry run across that semi-arid region,
but we hoped to overtake them in a few hours
and force them to fight. Two or three of our
horses gave out and our men took turns walking.
We followed the trail all that day and called a
halt and sized up the situation. We were many
miles from water, out of grub, hungry and worn
out; our horses were about exhausted, so we decided
to turn back. While we were resting here
John Ware went out and killed an antelope. We
cut it up in chunks and started back to water,
about thirty miles, which we reached the next morn-
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Hunter, J. Marvin. Pioneer history of Bandera County : seventy-five years of intrepid history, book, 1922; Bandera, Tex.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth27720/m1/97/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.