The Battle at Chalk Bluff cont.
"Raising his rifle, he fired quickly and told
Mr. Leakey to do the same, but Mr. Leakey
had trouble with his gun and couldn't pull
the hammer down, so he pulled his pistol
when he was right at an Indian.
"Finally his pistol refused to fire and
thinking he was out of loads, he jumped
from the cliff, catching at bushes and
rocks for a hundred feet, and he finally
caught in a cedar tree. This small sapling
wouldn't hold his weight, so he rolled on
over the ledge. The Indians thought he
was dead and two of them went down a
better path to scalp him, but he raised up
with the pistol and began to cursing them,
and the white men up on the cliff heard
him. My father told the men, 'He isn't
dead yet, listen at 'im cursing the
indians!' They got to Mr. Leakey and gave
him water and pulled two arrows out of
him. There were wounds. He was carried
back to the settlement and recovered
from his wounds in about six weeks.        
"Then before we left the canyon, my brother
Henry was killed by the Indians. He and I had
taken a little homemade wagon and gone above
the house past the field to haul up some wood.
Two Indians had hidden in the corner of the
field and they jumped out to grab us as we came
along and we started running. They killed Henry
and started on after me but I kept in the lead.
My mother and sisters ran out in the hallway
and saw an Indian about to catch me. They
grabbed a gun and fired at the Indian just as I
got to the fence and he stopped, so I got
through the gate and to the house.
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