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Chronicles of Oklahoma Volume 16, No. 3 September, 1938 COLONEL A. W. EVANS' CHRISTMAS DAY INDIAN FIGHT (1868) Edited by C. C. Rister. Page 275 At the end of the Civil War the western border was in great turmoil. Such events as the Chivington massacre, "Kit" Carson's attack on the Comanche and Kiowa encamped on the Canadian, and the destruction of Indian property in Oklahoma by white invaders had greatly embittered the red men. Moreover, men released from the Union and Confederate armies now swarmed over the prairies seeking homes; and hunting parties, great and small, recklessly slaughtered the buffalo....