Three Years Among the Comanches: The Narrative of Nelson Lee, Texas Ranger

"Half a dozen Indians sprung upon me, some holding down my arms, others my legs, another astride my body with his hand upon my throat."

Only Nelson Lee and three of his cowboy companions survived the brutal assault that had come upon them during the night.

Their fate was not to be killed instantly but instead to go through the process of being tortured to death in tribal rituals at a later date.

But Nelson Lee did not die.

Instead he survived his ordeal and went on to spend three years with the...