SCALPED by Indians. The Incredible Story of 13-Year-Old Robert McGee. Survived 14 Arrow-Spear Wounds

Wild Wild West. SCALPED by Kiowa and Arapaho Indians. Santa Fe Trail. A 13 Year Old Boy With More Than 14 Arrow & Spear Wounds Survives. In 1864 Army Supply Wagon on the Santa Fe Trail Attacked by 150 Warriors. All But 2 Massacred. The Boy Survives.
"Conflict along the overland trails resulted in deaths to non-Native travelers and
Native Americans alike. The Walnut Creek burial site epitomizes those conflicts
and the limited physical evidence that often accompanied those who died to their
graves. The men and boys who died at Walnut Creek on 18 July 1864 were all teamsters on Army freight wagons. The reports say they were stripped and likely scalped. The
buttons and buckle suggest that some clothing, perhaps too bloody to be of use to
the Native victors, was not taken and the victims were buried in remnant clothing of
trousers and shirts. No evidence of footwear was found during the excavations.
Shoes or boots may have been taken by the warriors or removed by the burial party.
Evidence of their death is abundant in one way. That evidence is in the form of 13
iron projectile points found in and near the skeletal remains.
The 10 teamsters were a mix of young and adult males. There were eight white men
and two African-American men who died that day. As was probably the case in life, the
white and African-American males were segregated in death as the two African-Americans were buried in a separate but nearby grave pit. Historical documents provide full
names of most of the men but only first names for the two Black men. Additional
research in genealogical records may reveal more about those who died in addition
to the father and son and one other individual can be identified.
Conflict on the overland trails was sometimes bloody and regularly difficult.
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