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... 24 SCALPING OF JOSIAH WILBARGER Haynie and Standifer on reaching Hornsby's had reported... the death of their three companions, stating that they saw Wilbarger fall and about fifty Indians around him... him that she confidently believed that Wilbarger was alive; that she had seen him vividly in a dream..., naked, wounded and scalped, but she knew he lived. Soon she fell asleep again. Wilbarger again appeared..., saying, 'I know that Mr. Wilbarger is not dead.' So confident was she that she would not permit the men