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However, all the wishing in the world wouldn’t bring back the frontier conditions of the early West or its spirit. A Missourian who chose to sign his namee “L ‘Encuerado” shed some interesting light on the use of the Henry rifle, both in the Civil War and on the plains of the West. In April of 1908, he furnished Outdoor Life readers with an anecdote involving a tiny band of steely-nerved Rebel veterans and a larger group of Indians being exposed for the first time to the repeating rifle. The incident took place somewhere in the Northwest.

At one of their camps, they were attacked by a band of hostile savages who feigned a charge, hoping to draw the fire of the white men. The Indians intended to rush them before their guns could be reloaded. They succeeded in drawing the anticipated fire, and charged the defenders furiously, only to be met by a murderous and rapidly successive fire at a range close enough to see the flabber-gasted expressions on the faces of the red men. The few survivors retreated at full speed. L ‘Encuerado was later given one of the Henrys associated with the lopsided battle as a memento.