THE LEAN AND resilient young men of the Kiowa and the Comanche had trained relentlessly as warriors from the time they were very young. They were graceful beyond description, and their speech and symbolism and dreams were of war, ardent soldiers in an anarchic, leaderless army. The Kiowa-Apache had developed a form of speech used only during raids and conflicts, the backward language. In which all precepts of peace were turned around and all concept of human behavior was reversed. The shout for retreat meant Stand your ground. And through this fearful country and this state of undeclared war
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How smart they were.
