Beyond the West: containing an account of two years' travel in the other half of our great continent far beyond the old West, on the plains, in the Rocky mountains, and picturesque parks of Colorado. Also, characteristic features of New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho ... Oregon, Utah, Nevada, and ... California, the end of the West ... the great continental railroad, together with the ... most wonderful natural scenery in the world .../ by George W. Pine.

ELKHORN STATION. 28'
whites fired first, and the medicine man and two
other Camanches fell.
When a medicine man is killed the others retire,
hold a council, and appoint another, for without I
their' medicine" they could not expect success
in battle. The warriors retired, while their women
came up and carried off the dead.
After devoting a little time to bewailing the departed, another chief was appointed to the head
place, and another furio,us charge was made with the
same results as before. Three more warriors bit the
dust, while the spears of their brethren, attached to
long hair ropes by which they could be withdrawn,
fell short of reaching the men in the fort. Again
ai,d again the Camnanches made a fruitless chargelosing, as often as they repeated it, three warriors,
eilher dead or wounded. Three successive times that
day, the head chief, or medicine-man, was killed;
and when that happened, the heroes in the fort got
a little time to breathe.
While the warriors held a council, the women took
care of the wounded and slain. As the women approached the fort to carry off the fallen warriors,
they mocked and reviled the little band of trappers,
calling themrn' women" for fighting in a fort, and resorting to the usual Irndian ridicule and gasconade.
Occasionally, also, a warrior raced at full speed past
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