Identifier: scoutrangerbeing00pike (find matches)
Title: The scout and ranger: being the personal adventures of Corporal Pike, of the Fourth Ohio cavalry. As a Texan ranger, in the Indian wars, delineating western adventure; afterwards a scout and spy, in Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, and the Carolinas, under General Mitchell, Rosecrans, Stanley, Sheridan, Lytle, Thomas, Crook, and Sherman. Fully illustrating the secret service. Twenty-five full-page engravings
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Pike, James, 1834-1867
Subjects: Texas Rangers Indians of North America -- Wars 1815-1875 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Scouts and scouting United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives
Publisher: Cincinnati, New York, J.R. Hawley & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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. As for theother companies—they needed not to be awakened by theirofficers ; the Avild, piercing war whoop sounded in their ears, andeach man in an instant had his hand upon his trusty rifle.There was no mistaking the shout—it was the war whoop of thewild Comanche ; and no sooner had its echo died away in thedistance, than the whole body of warriors charged down uponour horses, and stampeded them ; and but for the presence ofmind of a few of the rangers, all of them must have escaped.However, about twenty of the men ran in among them, and byconstant firing, got up a counter fright, and saved about halfour animals. The savages, having thus obtained possession of a part of ourhorses, rode away in triumph. Capt. Fitzhugh at once gaveorders to his m^.n to mount, and pursue ; but before he was off,another party of Comanchos raised a demoniac yell, and camedown upon us ; but discovering that we were prepared to re- in *i o s •MR K i-s p ap wi» ►J. ^» I—TO •. p. ? D*
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INDIAN DRESS. 127 ccive them, tliey retired out of gun shot range ; but they keptup such a noise, during the bahince of the night, that furthersleep was impossible, and we stood by our arms till daylight, bywhich time the last savage had disappeared. The first party numbered about sixty, and were splendidlymounted—some of them on fine American horses of great size;the second gang chiefly riding ponies. They were armed withrifles, bows, lances and pistols, which they used promiscuously—some being busily engaged shooting arrows, though at the sametime they had six shooters dangling to their wrists and fastenedby a string. They were for the most part naked, except thatthey wore breech clouts, though some sported leggins, and allhad head dresses and moccasins. A few only were in full dress.The Comanche people wore the buffalo scalp, while most ofthe stampede party sported Kiowa feather caps, some of whichfell into our hands. They were very nicely made of long whiteplumes, like swan fe

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