Buffalo Bill: His Life and Adventures in the Wild West — page 42: what you’re looking at

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| OO ESE EE UR a Oy a Buffalo Bill. as Chief of Scouts, the would surely haye warm. work with : tl The Fifth Cavalry was at once ordenes | f id , nel 7 to operate in scouting the country On | of thus the gold was found, whereof the fame spread broad and far. Little was the interest the pioneers took in the Indian pes ut fact, mae spa yee ee xlo-Eaxon from gold in the ) : Tie the first piactes They swarmed in | South Fork of the Cheyenne and to the foo like ants. The frightened buffalo and the | of the Black Hills, and it was while driving antelope followed the deer. In vain Red the Indians before them that the new Cloud protested. Fruitlessly he begged | came of Custer’s fat fight with Sittin the White Father for protection against Bull on the Little Big Horn. such an invasion. The White Father| General Merritt, who had supersede promised him everything, and turned | Carr in command, marched at once to th aside to set up jobs for his own re-election. Big Horn Country, and while en rout Then came news that the army would be| there came news of a large force 6 sent to protect the Indian and his dwelling | Cheyenne warriors moving down t0 jol ground against the incursions of the | Sitting Bull. 4 oe gettlers. The army came and—Ked When an Indian army 18 victorioul Cloud and half his band were made | the previously peaceful Indians break, ou prisoners. It was the protection the wolf} and gotojoinit. ou.) a gives to the sheep, heer as __ Instantly five hundred picked, mon 6 Deprived of their leader, the remnant the Fifth started back by forced marches fied deeper into the mountains, but there and Buffalo Bill, splendidly mountee was no peace. Buffeted, worn, and wild | kept on ahead of the.command a couple with fright, they sought home hither and | miles, aw . bels ” eho thither, until they found themselves in Discovering the Indians, he at the sam the British Dominions, where they were | time. beheld two horsemen whom hesaj wall received. In Canada, Indians have | to be whites, riding along unconscious.¢ always had a more kind treatment than | the presence of fp6s,<!>nix Se + : ‘nthe United States. There is less pre-|. He knew: that they must, be. sco judice about colour, for the French and } bearing dispatches, and at once determing ‘he Scotch Canadians will marry Indian | to save them, for they were riding it : women ; and, again, the Catholic mission- | direction down one valley. that. woul arics have long inculcatedcharityforthered | bring them directly. upon the red-skit skinned heathen, which the border settler, | who ad already sean them, and had sé who has lost wife, child or comrade. by | a force of thirty warriors out to. intereep a treacherous murderer ina copper hide} them. =. «=... |_sowes 2 will not accord him. .. ea Instantly Buffalo Bill dashed o1 € Red Cloud was made prisoner of the j United States Government and placed.1m Dakota. In his absence, Sitting Bull asserted he had sold the Black Hills to the Americans, and heated the tribeup into ficht. “Buffalo Bill, on hearing of the out- breaks foresaw that it was going to be the worst fight ever known, as the Indians began by whipping every force sent against them. Even as Bill Cody received General Carr’s telegram asking him.to come and join the army as chief scout, the Sioux and their allies had surrounded the Goldenhaired General Custer, and slaughtered nearly all his force. _ Only | carried in his grasp, 88 qur.old Bp one, in fact, escaped, and that was. an | archers carried a score of Frenet liv Indian, who, disguised himself, as one.of |. the arrows at their girdle,. A hob. the victors, charged with them and rode |,began, for they returned the fire... 4 away in the confusion. © eee einal This was just what. Buffalo Bill wan! Cody joined the command.at Fort. D.. the 1a A. Russell, where the famous... Fifth Cavalry Regiment was then in camp, and arriving received a boisterous welcome | the command and hasten from his old comrades, who felt that, with | Having droppos,3) anys ridge of the hill that concealed him fron the view of. the Cheyennes, and fod directly toward the band going,to, atiae the two white horsemen. ss They halted suddenly at sight of hi but, seeing that he was alone, they stark for him with-wild yells. . tee But still he kept..on directly towan them, until within range, when he open upon them with his matchless Evans ti a thirty-four-shot. repeater. Cody pral this: special weapon as one of the Une pieces of mechanism . he .ever) handlet Think, boys, in the hands,of .a dead al like our hero, it meant thirty-four live 7,14 +. r ww? ‘ . a ' placed. them. on their and. he § that the Indian volleys would be hea them. 4 ’ ¥ ¥