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which I consider not onl[[y]] fortunate, but lucky as well. Horse breaking at any time is not considered an easy thing and in those days it was far from a snap.

While here there were not many of the men together. We cared for each other the best we knew how. Things were in bad shape between the cowboys and the Indians and the Indians showed that they were unruly and hard to manage. In 1874, the latter part, the Comaches made a great raid.  It was the last raid that they ever made in Texas. No one knew that they were coming. For a while they had pretended to be on friendly terms with us and offered many evidences of their [[strikethrough]] friendship. They were all the time making prepar-[[strikethrough]] ations to swoop down upon us and to kill every man belonging to any of the outfits in that part of Texas.  When they did swoop down on us with their war paint and fighting clothes on, we were taken completely by surprise, but we rallied and stood our ground the best we could. Men were sent out after the Indians had done their worst and asked to gather all the men they could at Prairie Point. This was a small village in Wise county. Runners were sent out at night from cow camp to camp and told to urge the men to come post haste. Ranchmen were told that the Indians were up to something and to be prepared for the wretches.

The Indians [[[strikethrough]] kept at it. They swooped down on the people about Oliver creek and on toward Decatur. They killed and burned as they went  taking many unawares. Uncle Jerry Burnett and a number of men followed the redskins up and caught up with them on Briar creek.  There they chased them on to the Sandy. At this place the Indians and the cowboys came together. The cowboys got most of their horses back and slaughtered some of the Indians. Uncle Jerry Burnett was in charge of the cowboys and made an ideal [[strikethrough]] old fighter, He was absolutely afraid of nothing and seemed to care no more to risk death than a babe going to sleep.

One night after this we found Chief Quanah Parker and his warriors