Where the Dust Settles: Paiute-Shoshone Against the Pony Express

Previously

…They had struck a blow, a significant one. The Pony Express would feel this. But as Kona’s gaze swept over the burning wreckage, the scattered bodies, the terrified, captured faces of the surviving riders, a cold unease settled in his gut. The fire was a powerful symbol, a testament to their fury, but it was also a voracious beast that consumed indiscriminately. Had this victory, so hard-won, come at a price too steep for the land, for his people? The dust, when it finally settled, might reveal a landscape irrevocably scarred.