Summary

Deaver arrived in time for the arrest in Chapter 33. He introduced Samuel to Charley Simonton, an Associated Press writer. Simonton argued that the imprisonment of the headmen was neither legal nor moral. Simonton and Deaver stressed that handing the Comanche and Kiowa to the Texas government and forcing them onto the reservation would mean their certain death. Later that night, Deaver sent a drunken telegraph to Dr. Reed detailing Samuel’s decisions to imprison headmen with the Texas government, withhold rations, and keep returned captives against their will. Dr. Reed responded with a scathing letter to Samuel, who resigned from his post.

Britt transported a herd of horses alone in late December of 1870 in Chapter 34. He stopped to let the horses graze in the fog at the Old Stone Ranch House. He heard singing in the distance, prepared his gun, and walked carefully...