When night came on Lieutenant Golden was compelled to give up the
chase, and had to return to the post without having recovered one of
the stolen horses.
One never knows here what dreadful things may come up any moment.
Everything was quiet and peaceful when we sat down to luncheon, yet in
less than ten minutes we saw the rush of the Indians and the stampede
of the milkman's horses right from our dining-room window. The horses
were close to the post too. Splendid cavalry horses were sent after
them, but it requires a very swift horse to overtake those tough
little Indian ponies at any time, and the Kiowas probably were on
their best ponies when they stampeded the horses, for they knew,
undoubtedly, that cavalry would soon be after them.
DODGE CITY, KANSAS,
June, 1873.
WE reached this place yesterday, expecting to take the cars this
morning for Granada, but the servant who was to have come from Kansas
City on that train will not be here until to-morrow. When the time
came to say good-by, I was sorry to leave a number of the friends at
Camp Supply, particularly Mrs. Hunt, with whom we stayed the last few
days, while we were packing. Everyone was at the ambulance to see us
off--except the Phillips family.
We were three days coming up, because of one or two delays the very
first day. One of the wagons broke down soon after we left the post,
and an hour or so was lost in repairing it, and at Buffalo Creek we
were delayed a long time by an enormous herd of buffalo.
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