unscathed. Statements like Andrew Cathcart’s, and Clem Bowden’s concern about “never getting over” what had happened, were not just turns of phrase. The similar language reveals the shared nature of survivors’ understanding of their experiences, and of their shared need to communicate a dark, often ignored, truth: night-riding strikes were not neatly contained events that ended when white men left families’ homes and homesteads. Survivors were unmistakably clear about how these raids leached into the marrow of victims’ lives.10
