TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1860-1916
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came & asked us if we wanted an Indian fight which of course we redaly accepted, but we that morning had turned our horses on the wheat pasture & you know how it is when one wants to catch his horse quick. So we was bothered to catch them & the Indians 10 of them going in the direction of Jacks- boro & we was expecting the Squire from town to marry this party. So when the Indians was about a mile from the ranch [?] we thought they had met the Squire & was kilHng him, so I told these men that had their horses to go & try to save the Squire & keep after them untill we could assist them, So they did. & when my party got their horses we went north west as I knew the Indians would try to get to the mountains & brush. So sure enough this they did. & when they crossed Keechi Creek they stopped to fight this four that had been following them, & I don't think they knew of my party untill we reached the bluff when they was fighting & for a minute or so we was all mixed up together & had two of the Indians on the ground & badly wounded & then they broke again & I could not get my little bunch settled to do anything more. So I & brother tried to stop them again, but was not strong enuff to do it. So I told him to go back & try to get the others to help us, but in this he failed to do. & I kep close to the Indians for some distance. & finally I saw if any thing more was done I had to do it. So I charged them, thinking to shoot shoot [sic] out the few loads I had in my pistol & quit the chase. So the one behind as I guess thought he was in the most danger jumped off his horse & when I saw his red skin-all the fear & caution left me & I was determined to kill him or die myself. So my second shot brought him down. & that in a few steps of the other seven as this was all that got over the mountain where the wounded died & bones found afterwards So this one now was in favor of peace. & told me he would not kiUey me. if I would no killey him that he was a good Waco (The Waco Indians were the friendly & non fighting) & no stealy your horses I told him Hell was full of such good Waco. & I shot him again & by this time my boys came. & he was still beggin. So I told Tobe Passner to shoot his brains out & this ended the fight. So I skelped him. & takened his quiver & bow case & all. & put it on as he wore it. I didn't see your uncles [William Youngblood's] scelp for some time & when I did I had no idea whose it was. So we met a man that told us. So next day we was at the burying
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