My Summer Vacation

<p><em>Deeming it my duty I camped directly in their line of march </em>(the Apache Chief Victorio and his band)<em> and at the only water for a long distance north. I had with me only First Lieutenant William H. Beck Tenth Cavalry one non-commissioned officer five privates - two of whom were teamsters - and my son Robert K. Grierson who just through high school was out in search of adventure and suddenly found it.</em></p><p><br></p><p>Thus Colonel Benjamin Henry Grierson Tenth Cavalry describes the stand he made at Rattlesnake Springs in July 1880 during that summer's campaign. Accompanying his father was son Robert a bright articulate young man who in search of adventure documented that summer with his father chasing Victorio through West Texas.</p>