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EASTWARD, AS THE RANGERS hurried home along the valley of the Brazos, they came upon scene after scene of devastation. Six times they stopped to bury families, some of them so decomposed as to be hardly worth burying. They saw not a single Comanche, though several times a day they crossed the tracks of the retreating war parties. Most of the raiders were driving horses before them-sometimes sizable herds of horses.
"They must have stolen half the horses in south Texas," Augustus said.