When they was Indian-fightin' up there with the Modoc Indians, a lot of the miners an' settlers took a hand.

Roberts was captain of one outfit, and once, after a fight, they took a lot of prisoners--squaws, an' kids an' babies.

An' one of the kids was my father.

They figured he was about five years old.

He didn't know nothin' but Indian." Saxon clapped her hands, and her eyes sparkled: "He'd been captured on an Indian raid!" "That's the way they figured it," Billy nodded.