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tipped with a short piece of burnt chamiso. Of the tragedy that ensued Orlando Barton member of one of the oldest Pioneer families in Tulare county has written as follows: ''it would take a large book to hold all the stories that have been told, and retold of this memorable fight but among the numerous accounts we can discern something of the truth. The ten days were out at noon and the Indians immediately attacked the men on the open ground. Allowing
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an hour for them to run down and kill the men on the outside it was 1 pm before they were ready to begin the attack on the cabin.
A great number had
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assembled all the fighting men in the kaweah delta were there. I know Indians who lived as far north as drum Valley who took part in the fight there was certainly seven or eight hundred perhaps a thousand Indians present.''returning from the pursuit of those on the outside the Indians taking advantage of the dry weeds the oak trees and the river bank surrounded the cabin and the fight of a thousand against one commenced. The Willow arrows which in derision
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