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Show 256 INDIAN DEPKEDATIONS RAID ON PINE VALLEY, INDIANS OVERTAKEN, ELEVEN KILLED. From David Chidester the following additional particulars are obtained. On the night of Jan. 18th, 1867, the Navajo and some Shevete Indians gathered stock from Shoal Creek down along Black Ridge. When Col. J. D. L. Pierce and his company found the tracks, they followed them to the end of the ridge, some ten or fifteen miles. The militia kept in a wash as much as possible, and saw in the distance what appeared to be a small whirl- wind, but which proved to be smoke from the Indians camp- fire. The cavalry came upon the Indians unawares, and killed twelve of them and put the rest to flight; they recovered nearly all the stock, about two hun-dred head, but some of the Indians had separated were seen, but not found. While the fight was in from the rest, as the tracks of two large mules progress the stock started back the way they came, and were not overtaken till they had preceded about six miles. As spring advanced Black- Hawk and his band from the Elk Mountains region made, their way northward. In March, 1867, General Snow was in Glenwood confined to his bed with sickness, and the people were not looking for trouble with the Indians so early in the season. However, they were prepar-ing for future trouble by building a rock fort about two miles west of Glenwood, which was considered a safer place than Glenwood, being farther away from the mountains, or out in the open valley, but the location was not good, as it was low land and without |
