Nine Years Among the Indians by Herman Lehmann

Author:Herman Lehmann [Lehmann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BIG BYTE BOOKS
Published: 2017-02-14T05:00:00+00:00

WE RUN AWAY

Our men collected, the women and children came together, and we stole all of the horses, blankets and guns we could find, and under the cover of night we escaped. The next morning we were many miles from the fort and the detested whites. We made for the plains as fast as we could travel, and soon we were in our old haunts.

We needed horses, so a raid was ordered and a band of us went far down into the settlements. The first encounter we had was with two boys, on the James River, one nearly grown and the other smaller. They fought desperately, but were overpowered, killed and scalped. We stole many horses in that region, some of them, I afterwards learned, belonged to Welge, Stone, Ellebracht and Henry Keyser. We went to Fredericksburg that night, but we avoided killing anybody, for we were not anxious to be chased by the Rangers.

We then went on to the Packsaddle Mountain region. On Sandy Creek we saw a man chopping wood, and grazing near him was a sorrel pony with a saddle on. He saw us, jumped on the pony, and tried to get away. We crowded him closely, when he quit his horse, dropped his ax, lost his hat and made his way into a thicket. He soon left the thicket and ran to a house, and we saw him enter. We didn’t often fool around a house when we knew there was a man in it, so we took his horse and went on down the creek. Near there we found and drove away twenty head of horses.

There came up a drenching rain, which wet our bowstrings, so we went into a thicket in the roughs and built a fire to dry them. We were thus busily engaged, when suddenly white men rushed in upon us. We stayed together and fought for a little while, but the Indians were falling all around, and we scattered. Going west, those of us who were not killed came together at a convenient place. Then we stole more horses and hurried on. We discovered that we were followed by the dreaded Rangers, who overtook us near the Concho on the second morning. We had a hard fight, and our loose horses were captured by the Rangers. One Indian was killed and several wounded, but we escaped.

We went on to where we had left our people in camp, but when we reached there we found they had moved. We found buffalo bones and on them pictures representing a fight with the white people. On some bones properly arranged were the pictures of seven men pierced with arrows, also a wagon burning up; the bones pointed northward. Twelve bones peculiarly arranged represented twelve days’ journey. We traveled on for twelve consecutive days, then we could see smokes a long ways apart, all in rows pointing westward. This we took to mean that the Rangers were too thick and had made it so hot for the Indians that they had moved westward.

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