A Quote from Ancestry.com , so I don’t forget about it. Don’t know if I’ll look here when Im working on this part of the family.
Full Context of Narratives of Early California:
El Dorado; or California as Seen By a Pioneer
Had it not been for their coolness and daring, Boggs would have fallen victim to the Indians. It was also during this eventful year that William Waldo and Antone Chenie had a desperate combat with a large body of Comanche and Kiowa Indians, and escaped almost by a miracle. A few years before, Captain Pratte, a brother of General Bernard Pratte, of St. Louis, fell upon the desert shores of the Gila, and not many years after, Alexander Papin, of another celebrated St. Louis family, spilled his life blood upon the thirsty sands of the winding Arkansas.