Then, with an extra box of ammunition and three or four extra revolvers which we always carried with us, we crept under the wagon, prepared to give our visitors a reception they would remember.
On came the Indians, pell-mell, but when they got within a hundred yards of us we opened such a sudden and galling fire that they held up and began circling about us.
Several times they charged.

Their shots killed the two mules and my horse.

But we gave it to them right and left, and had the satisfaction of seeing three of them fall to the ground not more than fifty feet away.
When we had been cooped up in our little fort for about an hour we saw the cavalry coming toward us, full gallop, over the prairie.

The Indians saw the soldiers almost as soon as we did.

Mounting their horses, they disappeared down the canon of the creek.