The Comancheros Author:Paul I. Wellman Screaming down from the hills at dusk came the Indians, plumed head dresses flying, their painted figures gleaming eerily in the last light of the dying day. The little ranch settlement was doomed before the first shot was fired, and when it was all over, the brutally mutilated dead lay in the smoldering ashes of their cabins. Nettie Hare, wh... more »o had survived by hiding in some underbrush, told the story of the raid in all its cruel detail...
"I seen a white man with 'em," she added still trembling in terror.
"....a white man." This could mean only one thing: the Comancheros, the unscrupulous gypsies of the plains, were riding in battle with the savage Comanches. Not content merely to buy stolen cattle, horses, and other plunder from the Indians, they were now actively engaged in the bloody business of massacre.« less