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A surveying party of 25 Texans encountered about 300 Kickapoo Indians on a buffalo hunt and, after failing to heed a warning to leave, was ambushed on Oct. 8, 1838. Only seven survived, four of them wounded. After escaping, the survivors returned to bury their comrades in a common grave.
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