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Title: Autobiography and reminiscences of Theophilus Noel
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Noel, Theophilus, 1840-
Subjects: United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate
Publisher: Chicago : Theo. Noel Company Print, c1904
Contributing Library: Houston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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verbally andasked for reinforcements to regain our lost guns and campequipments, and well it was that our general had been drink-ing a superior quality of whisky and was therefore in a goodmood, for he told us to take as many volunteers as we wished,for, had we started out there with a less number than theeighty who> followed us, the Muscaleroi Apaches, who werelying in wait for us, would have ended our existence. The red devils were in ambush, but by some Divine guid-ance we lost the regular trail and came in between them andthe mountains, and but for our having the advantage in thelay of the land and they only having bows and arrows, wemight not have got away with so many of them, sending themto their happy hunting-grounds, where all good Indians are,and they might have interfered with the circulation of theblood of no few of us. Several of our horses were hit withtheir arrows. They got over it soon and we returned to campwith the scalps of a few of the braves together with their
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l\ FISH, SNAKE AND OTHER STORIES. 267 trappings. We also returned with our guns and what o>f thecamp outfit was left, for the brute returned and demolishedeverything, but did not touch the three guns and the two six-shooters that were left lying on the ground. The track this bear made showed that his right fore pawhad three claws cut off and two of his left hind foot claws alsoshowed that he had been in a trap in his day and time. Thisbear measured fourteen feet from tip to the left hind paw.He was killed fourteen years after above interview, by a partyof surveyors of the Atchison, Topeka, Santa Fe, and I trav-eled nearly fifteen hundred miles to offer one thousand dollarsfor that pelt. It was the property of an Englishman who gaveeighteen hundred dollars for it and who gave me a photographfor nothing. The history of this animal as orally given by the Indiansand Mexicans of that country was one of great length, notonly of the story, but in the period of time that it covered.This an

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