A Damyankee in the Wild WestChapter 10
Author’s note:[ and ] delineate mind-to-mind dialog. By late in 1874, it was getting difficult to find groups of Comanches that Ranger and I thought were worth attacking. Finally, the Comanches seemed to get the idea that attacking Whites with large war parties was a losing proposition. I don’t know how much our demon image was contributing to that, but we were getting the result we wanted, so I didn’t worry about it. Susan was now 8 years old and JJ was about 6 months old—an ideal...