He was disgusted with what American society had made him into — what they expected of him — and he hated even more failing to live up to those expectations. On October 24, 1849, just east of Point of Rocks on the Santa Fe Trail, Jicarilla Apaches ambushed the party of Missouri merchant James White, slaughtering all six men as well as a black female servant, and carrying off the merchant’s young wife Anna and infant daughter Virginia. Pueblo Indians, passing through the Apache camp soon
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