The Indians of the Southwest, who had been accustomed to roam at will over Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, and Indian Territory, were gathered at this great council. Their grievances, their woes, their condition, and final destruction were portrayed with vivid native eloquence. Their savage natures were aroused to the most intense ferocity. There was but one sentiment, and that was revenge and relentless war upon the white race. The unanimous resolve of the warriors of the different tribes was the formation of a great war party to attack and destroy the buffalo-hunters who were occupying a stockade at Adobe Walls on the Canadian River in the Panhandle of Texas. This resulted in a severe fight between the resolute, self-reliant white man and the savage, similar to those in the days of Daniel Boone on the "dark and bloody ground" of Kentucky. These hunters were accustomed to go out along the Canadian River region, get on the leeward side of a herd of buffalo, and at a distance where the crack of their rifles would not be heard fire with great accuracy and deadly effect until the herd of forty, sixty, and sometimes one hundred and forty buffalo would lie dead upon the plain. Fortunately the Indian attack upon the hunters occurred on Sunday when they were all gathered together. The Indians displayed the greatest courage, some of them dashing up to the very gates of the stockade and trying to beat them down with their spears and tomahawks while their comrades kept up a sharp fire with their rifles. Their assault was repulsed with severe loss, a large number were killed and many wounded, and the troops were called upon to suppress the Indian hostilities.