***Much more difficult to find detailed accounts of the Indian raids and accompanying atrocities that had caused the CO militia to be so angry.***
Try these books. MASSACRES OF THE MOUNTAINS by J R Dunn Jr. Written a during the late 1870s. Lots of details as to WHY!
The author admits he likes Indians but is not willing to sugarcoat many of the findings in his own research and interviews with people of those days.
And this one THE INDIAN WARS OF 1864 by Captain Eugene Ware. University of Nebraska Press.
Then I have a very old rare copy of ROMANCE AND TRAGEDY OF PIONEER LIFE by Augustus Lynch Mason (1883)
THE SAVAGE YEARS anthology edited by Shepard Rifkin. articles taken from old newspapers and pioneer diaries.
Comanches, The History of a People by T.R. Fehrenbach
And this:
You will never look at the Indian Wars in the same light again.
As an aside I knew a woman whose grandfather was murdered by Comanches —— and I think she is still alive! -—— pushing a hundred in a nursing home. Her mother was a youngster when the grandfather went to sell a cow and did not come home. He was tortured, robbed and killed.
Also used to work with a retired Army Sgt whose father was a mustanger Lt in WW 2. His father witnessed a US Colonel in France telling another Lt to take a batch of Germans back to the PW holding area fifteen miles in the rear and to be back in twenty minutes
If MORMONs are involved; be prepared for a LOT of 'preconceived' ideas coming forth...