Comanche Lodge - War Gear Page. A leaders road is a hard road.
Some men are good leaders of war parties.
Everybody knows who they are. Sometimes he meets a man and tells him he is going on the warpath and wants him to go along. Then another and another and after a while he calls a council and says he is going on warpath against the Pawnees and fills a pipe and offers it to a man to smoke, if the man smokes the pipe he says yes, he will go on war path with him. This is done the night before they start out. When the leader starts out he mounts his horse and holds his pipe with stem down in his left hand with his reins.