"In the spring of 1867, Loving and Goodnight returned to Texas, ready to start a new drive. In a Comanche attack, he was seriously wounded at Loving Bend on the Pecos River."
The real 'Lonesome Dove" His "serious wound" was a shot through the wrist, a wound that would be easily fixed today, one shot through the wrist that later became gangrenous and finally killed him.
I agree there no one wanted to get shot.