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Bad Medicine

by | Oct 7, 2016 | True West Blog

In the spring of 1874, medicine man Isa-tai (translates as “Wolf’s Vulva”) convinced 250 Kiowas, Commanches and Southern Cheyenne that White Man bullets could not touch them. Led by Quanah Parker, the raiders, including Isa-tai riding naked except for a cap of sage stems, attacked 28 buffalo hunters at a remote Texas camp called Adobe Walls. At least 25 of the attackers discovered they we


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