...he arrived there the succeeding day, almost crazed from pain and exhaustion. Simultaneously with the fiendish atrocities committed on the Saline and Solomon rivers and the attack on Comstock and Grover , the pillaging and murdering began on the Smoky Hill stage-route, along the upper Arkansas River and on the headwaters of the Cimarron. That along the Smoky Hill and north of it was the exclusive w...