They killed for a living and died for a price.The Comanches had been pushed too far by the government in Washington, driven to anger by the whiskey traders and formed into a deadly fighting force by the cold blooded gun runners. THE PONY SOLDIERS were a dirty undisciplined rabble, but they were the only chance a thousand settlers had to see another sunrise. They were an unyielding rock in a sea of bloodshed, determined to fight to the last- each man swearing to kill ten Comanches before he died.