Tales of Aztlan
Tales of Aztlan
The Romance of a Hero of our Late Spanish-American War, Incidents of Interest from the Life of a western Pioneer and Other Tales.
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attacked the wagon train which I was presumed to have joined, a short
distance out from Junction City. They killed and scalped several
teamsters and also a young German traveler; stampeded and drove off a
number of mules and burned up several wagons. This was done while
fording the Arkansas River, near Fort Dodge. I was delayed near
Kansas City under circumstances which preclude the supposition of
chance and indicate a subtle and Inexorably fatal power at work for
the preservation of my life--a force which with the giant tread of
the earthquake devastates countries and lays cities in ruins; that
awful power which on wings of the cyclone slays the innocent babe in
its cradle and harms not the villain, or vice versa; that inscrutable
spirit which creates and lovingly shelters the sparrow over night and
then at dawn hands it to the owl to serve him for his breakfast. Safe
I was under the guidance of the same loving, paternal Providence
which in death delivereth the innocent babe from evil and temptation
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