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Show 126 INDIAN DEPKEDATIONS with him, but he would not talk. When I saw I could not back fast enough to keep out of his way I squatted down, cocked my gun and with my finger on the trigger pointed it at his face. He jerked his horse back so quick having what we called a jaw-breaker bit, that the horse fell back on his haunches but the Indian stayed with the horse. He then be-gan to talk. He asked what the people said who moved up from below. I said " nothing." He said, " you lie." I told him that they said the Indians wanted more horses and cattle for the land than it was worth. He said, " all right" and rode to the herdhouse where all the Indians had gathered by this time. They broke open the door and went in and took and carried away all our bedding, provis-ions and cooking utensils, and other things, and started towards Fairview. When near the divide, they met Lyman Peters, coming to Thistle Valley, and when they saw his head over the ridge, they pulled their guns out of their cases. Peters saw it, got off his horse, turned it between him and the In-dians, laid his gun across the saddle, pointing it towards them, and asked what they wanted. They answered " navish" nothing, placed their guns back in the cases and came on. As they passed Peters, one of them made a grab for Peters' gun, but as Peters struck at the Indian with his gun, the Indian dodged and hit his own horse on the shoulder, lam-ing him. Peters then came down to where we were and we told him what the Indians had done. Just then one lone Indian, who had been hunting, came down through the brush on foot. When he was off about three hundred yards, Peters rested his gun on a |
