Excerpt from "Horse Miracles" by Brad & Sherry Steiger, pages 65-70: "The Devil Rider is a strange manifestation that some of the people of the central Texas hills claim to have seen before every major conflict in which the United States has become embroiled." The exact site where the Rider appears (first recorded account 1861) is not disclosed but it reportedly sits on the location of an old Spanish Fort where Comanche Indians massacred the entire garrison, around 1700. Reportedly, the Devil Rider appears on his enormous black steed out of nowhere and then vanishes, along with his horse's tracks. He is reportedly adorned in armor including: iron gauntlets, a Spanish helmet, a buckle with an inscription of a crown & lion, and two brass single barrel pistols of 18th century design with the look of fine Spanish Craftsmanship.