Comanche Cowboy (The Durango Family) - Plot & Excerpts
Colonel Mackenzie and studied the distant, crumbling walls of the buffalo hunters’ fortress in the first pink light of the coming dawn. He glanced over at the war chiefs astride their ponies in a circle around him. All respectfully awaited his signal to begin the morning’s attack. Could he, should he waste the lives of any more of his men? “Isa-tai,” he grunted to the Noconi whose vision had launched this campaign. “I think your puha, your magic is weak. Your visions have availed us nothing.” The man frowned, his face distorted by garish paint. Isa-tai was stripped for battle as were the others, although he had not participated in the fighting, which was his privilege as war leader. The Noconi Comanche wore a cap of sacred sage leaves, and both he and his pony were painted with bright yellow war paint. “When I predicted the comet, you were impressed. When the hot drought came this year as I predicted, you believed me. Now I tell you my power should protect us against the whites’ guns, make their bullets bound off us.
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