Thursday, November 18, 2021

Won't risk casualties

     "Will the Indians attack us?"

    "No. Not unless there were five or six hundred of them, and this desert will hardly support so many. They'll watch us, and when we camp they'll stampede our stock if they can. Otherwise we won't even see them."

    He paused. "We can always recruit more men, but they can not. There are just so many Indians in each tribe, and when they suffer casualties it is a severe loss. They won't risk it."

(from Callaghen, by Louis L'Amour)

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