Rabu, 11 Oktober 2017

One Young Kiowa Would Not Listen, Which Won Him Respect and a New Name

Botalye rode alone against the soldiers’ position four times in a row. For four days after attacking a U.S. Army supply train at Gageby Creek in the Staked Plains of Texas, a Kiowa and Comanche war party had exchanged fire with the soldiers defending their circled-up wagons. Now, on September 12, 1874, the Indians learned …

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