"Jack Hayes was the first captain in Texas to recognize the potentialities of Colt's newfangled revolvers. Because of this, in early 1840 he fought the first successful mounted action against the Comanches. Riding beside the Pedernales River nw of San Antonio with only 14 men, Hays was ambushed by a party of seventy Comanches. Previously, the standard tactic was to race for cover, and hold off the Comanches with their long rifles- heretofore their only hope for survival.
Hays, however, wheeled and led his men in a charge against the howling, onrushing horse Indians; the fourteen Rangers rode through a blizzard of arrows and engaged the Comanches knee-to-knee with blazing revolvers. Hays lost several men to arrows, but his repeating pistols struck down dozens of warriors.
Startled, amazed by the white men who charged and whose guns seemed inexhaustible, horrified by heavy losses, the Comanche war band broke and fled. The Rangers killed thirty Comanches."
Comanches: The History of a People by TR Fehrenbach
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
