Sting operation

The Coyote No-Ones Sting
The Coyote Sting was an operation in 1850 by the House of Crows to take out the Coyote No-Ones.

Background
Throughout the 1840s, the Coyotes expanded rapidly to become a major threat to travelers and settlers. They gave the area a reputation for lawlessness and brutality. The bulk of their efforts centered around the Santa Fe trail, but anything in the region, especially animals like horses and oxen, were fair game.

Wanting to encourage American settlement on the territory but unable to send the US Army, a group of patrons hired the House of Crows to take out the Coyotes and other gangs in the area.

Events
The House of Crows sent out five wagons as bait. Each carried a fake settler family with some valuables going west to lure out a few Coyotes. Two of the wagons were attacked and the agents onboard tracked them back to the base to confirm the location of Porahi. They quickly assembled a team of fighters led by Jefe to attack the base, and kill or apprehend everyone associated with the gang.

They surrounded Porahi at night. The original plan was to attack before dawn, but delays in units moving in caused Jefe to make the decision to postpone the attack until all units could arrive, and then to attack immediately as he would rather risk attacking in daylight than risk one of the leaders leaving. He needed all the Coyotes in one place, as the Coyotes knew the area better than him and could elude him if they escaped.

Around 10 AM. Porahi's geography formed natural defensive formations that made attack en masse impossible. They had to be almost single-file to get through the main entrance, and scaling the steep walls would make them easy targets. So they essentially skiied down the sandy part of the canyon to quickly get the fighters into Porahi, and attacked while the Coyotes were unprepared. Porahi's natural fortifications ended up trapping the Coyotes inside, ironically.

When Isaiah was restraining Joel, Joel pulled Isaiah's second gun from his holster, but instead of shooting Isaiah Joel shot another Crow on the opposite side of the room, who was fighting Chippy (a friend of Joel's.) At the same time he headbutts Isaiah and tries to make a run while providing covering fire, but Isaiah knocks him over easy and captures him.

Aftermath
Impressed by both his courage Joel's ability to function even in the face of sheer terror and panic, and his dedication to his comrades, as seeing the potential in his trick shots, Jefe recruits Joel into the House of Crows by appealing to Joel's hope of being 'something big.' He tells Joel he has potential, something he's never heard before. So Joel cooperates but Jefe doesn't truly get Joel's devotion and loyalty until he proves that Joel will not be left behind on a mission. After that, Jefe takes Joel under his wing as a protege.