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FOR TWO DAYS, as they approached the canyon of the Yellow Cliffs, Buffalo Hump and Kicking Wolf saw no game, though there had been an abundance of antelope and deer as they traveled south. Soon after crossing the Rio Grande they discovered a small herd of wild horses, a discovery that excited them both. They were small horses, mustangs-as soon as they saw the Comanches, they fled.
Kicking Wolf wanted to chase them awhile; at the sight of the quick, hardy wild horses, animals able to live where there was little water and almost no grass, his appetite for catching horses revived a little.