ine-man, announced that he had a medicine
that would make the guns of the whites useless. Many of the Cheyennes
and Apaches and others believed him.

The first point of attack should be the white hunters' camp at Adobe
Walls, in the Pan-handle of northern Texas. That was the nearest camp,
and was one of the most annoying.

"Those men shall not fire a shot; we shall kill them all," I-sa-tai
promised. "We shall ride up to them and knock them on the head. My
medicine says so."

A war party of seven hundred Red River Comanches, Southern Cheyennes,
Arapahos, Kiowas and Apaches were formed, to wipe out Adobe Walls.

Quana Parker, chief of the Kwahadi band of Comanches, became the
leader. The Kwahadi Comanches had not signed the treaty of 1867, by
which the other tribes sold their lands and settled upon places
assigned them by the Government. They continued to roam freely, and
hunt where they chose. They always had been wild, independent Indians
of Texas.

Chief Quana Parker himself was a young man of thirty years, but a noted
warrior. Like his name, he was half Indian, half white--although all
Comanche. In 1835 the Comanches had captured a small settlement in
east Texas, known as Parker's Fort; had carried off little John Parker,
aged six, and little Cynthia Ann Parker, aged nine. Cynthia grew up
with the Comanches, and married Peta Nokoni or Wanderer, a fine young
brave who was elected head chief of the Kwahadis. Their baby was named
Quana, and now in 1874 was called Quana Parker.

In 1860, or when he was fifteen years old, his mother had been retaken
by the Texas Rangers. She lived with her brother, Colonel Dan Parker,
four years. Then she died. Boy Quana was Indian; he stayed with the
Comanches. He won his chiefship by running away with a girl that he
loved, whom a more wealthy warrior tried to take from him. Many young
men joined him in the hills, until his rival and the girl's father were
afraid of him, and the tribe elected him head chief.

The Texans feared him, if they feared any Indian; all Indians respected
him; in June, this 1874, he marshalled his allied chiefs and warriors
for the raid upon the buffalo hunters. He had more faith in bullets
and arrows than in I-sa-tai's medicine, but I-sa-tai went along.

There were two Adobe Walls, on the south branch of the Canadian River,
in Hutchinson County, Texas Pan-handle. The first had been built in
1845 by William Bent and his partners of Ben