climb back, but the slide rock gave way under…
source date: 1890
availability: public-domain

climb back, but the slide rock gave way under her, giving Hugh time to get his gun and send a ball through her brain. He sank back bleed- ing and exhausted, lacerated and bruised from head to foot, his left arm useless and entirely denuded of flesh and not enough clothing left on him to even dress his hand. His companion hearing the shot came over to see what occa- sioned it, found him and assisted him to town, where his wounds were dressed. Hugh was never the same man after the encounter, and seldom mentioned it to any one. He gradually declined in health and died at St. Vincent’s hospital, Santa Fe, the summer of 1885.