Dan Flores
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Gunfighters · Ep. 39: The River That Flowed From Nowhere, Part II | The American West · 28 Jul 2026
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Captain Sparks sent Tattasuk and Talapoon forward to announce us, and before sunset, we again descended into the canyon where we entered a camp of 120 tents, almost a thousand persons, hundreds of very noisy dogs, and roundabout which grazed several thousand horses and mules that were constantly coming and going to pastures at some distance from the main camp.
This camp had more than one chief, for it was made up of several divisions, but we were escorted to the tent of its generally acknowledged leader, a man who appeared near 50 years of age, extremely fit, with a bright eye, and, as we were soon to learn, a quick mind.
wary at first, for they had been in the country upon the Arkansas and had heard nothing of our coming, he soon inclined, as some others were not, towards greeting us in friendly fashion.
And inside a spacious high tent, copiously fitted, he bade us smoke with him.
Through our interpreter, Talapun, who spoke with him in both signs and the Aitan language, a tongue entirely unrelated to that of the Pawnees, Mr. Freeman explained the nature of our journey.
When he began to speak, he said he was known to the Spanish as Cordero, but that in his language he was Isambambi, meaning handsome wolf.
Isa, the Haitian word for wolf, was a common cognomen among their warriors.
His people were the Katsotikas, or buffalo hunters, he said, and they traded in both Santa Fe and San Antone, where the Spaniards called them by the name Comanches.
The Aitons, or Comanches, he said, were as numerous as the stars and owned all the country from San Antone to Santa Fe and north to the Arkansas.
He told us frankly and with a prim satisfaction that it was good that the great mystery had placed a forest towards the sunrise to hem the Comanches in, for if there were prairies and buffalo and horses in that direction,
he would fear for the people of the United States as the Comanches would surely overrun us.
He said they were at peace with the Spaniards who traveled and traded among them freely and whom they suffered to raise horses for them.
He called the river we were on Kiche Ake Hono, meaning Burrowing Squirrel River, for the countless numbers of the towns of these animals along it.
He said the traders from Santa Fe called this canyon Palo Duro.
On specific inquiry to Mr. Freeman's questions, Cordero added to doubts already growing among us.
This river would not take us to near Santa Fe, he said.
Beyond the Great Tableland was a river that came down from the Spanish Peaks near Santa Fe, but it took a course almost due south.
A few days' ride to the north of us was another river that came out of the snowy Sierra in the country of one of their divisions called the Yamparica.
Told of our instructions to locate only the head sources of this river we were on, he remarked again that it and the river to Santa Fe were not a part of the same water, but said he would show us all the waters of any rivers we wished to see.
Cordero accepted Mr. Freeman's offer of a United States flag and showed it utmost respect.
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