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Article: The red-haired captive and the fight at Pinta Trail Crossing: in 1841 Chief Yellow Wolf and his Comanche raiders were heading back to Hill Country with an Irish prisoner when Captain Jack Hays and his company of Texas Rangers attacked.
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- December 1, 2009
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James Dunn thought his time had come, that this mild day in early 1841 would be his last. Hands bound and body lashed to the saddle of a Comanche pony, he glanced warily about him as his captors chivvied a herd of stolen mounts across the shallow ford of the Guadalupe River at the Pinta Trail Crossing, 45 miles north of San Antonio, in the Republic of Texas. Only the day before, Comanche Chief Yellow Wolf and 80 warriors had struck the western fringes of town, killing two Hispanic citizens and a black sheepherder before happening upon the Irish emigrant as he herded his own flock of woolies. Only his lush mane of coppery red hair had saved him from a quick lance thrust. ...
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