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AN INDIAN SCALPED AND ROASTED

Submitted by ken @ Ghost Cowboy on February 28, 2007 - 7:33am.
Tags: Indians | Arizona | New Mexico | 1882

New-York Times / July 26, 1882

LORDSBURG, New Mexico, July 26. -- A courier from Clifton reports that a large party of Indians attacked a wagon train three miles this side of Clifton yesterday morning, killing two men. The teamsters, seven in number, stood off the Indians for two hours, mortally wounding one, whom they dragged into camp in the face of heavy firing. After the fight was over they scalped him and roasted him alive.

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