Here's more, from the University of Texas History Dept online source (IOW probably credible)...
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fpl01 After the Texas Revolution Pl�cido enlisted as a scout with the Texas Rangers. During the Republic of Texas he campaigned with the rangers against the Comanches and Kiowas. In 1840 he and his warriors joined Gen. Felix Huston's army after the Comanche attack on Linnville and participated in the battle of Plum Creek.
In this battle Huston's militia and Indian allies confronted an enormous Comanche war party led by Buffalo Hump. The fight was a victory for the Texans, and Pl�cido's warriors took a great many Comanche scalps and hundreds of horses. If the those thirteen Tonkawas realy did leave the field with "hundreds" of horses, they carried off far more horses per man after that fight than did the Texan forces. As will be seen, some of the Texans would be reduced to quibbling for individual horses and mules just to get home.
Clearly there were some hard men among the Texas forces and all were brave, and there were many among them who hated Indians with a passion. The fact that the Tonkawas were able take hundreds of horses as their own without a recorded murmur of opposition from the assembled Texans might say much about how the they had performed in the fight.
As it would turn out too they were able to hold a victory feast within sight, smell and hearing of the Texans, cutting up and consuming at least one fallen Comanche. Just thirteen men, by that night in the presence of at least 400 assembled Texans, includng at least three Christian Ministers. If anybody said a word to object such ain't recorded.
Robert Hall, who saw the whole thing, reports that the Tonkawas acted as if they were intoxicated after consuming human flesh, clearly the whole practice had a profound effect on them if only by the power of suggestion.
I think the Tonkawas gave everybody a thorough case of the willies, Comanches and Texans alike.
Birdwatcher
