The following history was elicited: In the fall of 1862 he led a band of Kiowas against the Pawnee Indians, and was wounded in a fight near Fort Larned, Kansas.

Being mounted and leaning over his horse, a Pawnee, on foot and within a few paces, drove an arrow deep into his right buttock.

The stick was withdrawn by his companions, but the iron point remained in his body.

He passed bloody urine immediately after the injury, but the wound soon healed, and in a few weeks he was able to hunt the buffalo without inconvenience.

For more than six years he continued at the head of his band, and traveled on horseback, from camp to camp, over hundreds of miles every summer.