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14 ae ee — That blushing young huntress being Maggie Reynolds, dear reader, it need not be suid that the romance of ber life and that of. California Joe ended in the reality of matrimony. ' In his book, ‘‘My Life on the Plains,” (zeneral Custer thus speaks of California Joe: ‘in concentrating the cavalry which had hitherto been operating in small bodies, it was found that each detachment brought with it the scouts who had been serving with them. When I joined the command I found quite a number of these scouts attached to various portions of the cavalry, but each acting sepa- rately. For the purpose of organization it was deemed best to unite them in a separate detachment under command of one of their own number. Being; unacquainted with the merits or demerits of any of them, the selec- tion of a chief had to be made somewhat at random. ‘““There was one ) among their number whose appearance would have attracted the notice of any casual observer. He wasa man about forty years of age, perbaps older, over six feet in bight, and possessing a well-proportioned frame. His head was covered with a luxuriant crop of long, almost black hair, strongly inclined to curl, and so long as to fall carelessly over his shoulders. His face, at least so much of it as was not concealed by the long, waving brown beard and mustache, was full of intelligence and pleasant to look upon. His eye was un- doubtedly handsome, black and lustrous, with an expression of kindness and mildness com- bined. On hia head was generally to be seen, whether awake or asleep, a huge sombrero, or black slouch hat. A soldier’s overcoat, with ite large circular cape, a pair of trowser's with the legs tucked in the top of his long boots, usually constituted the make-up of the man whom I selected as chief scout. He was known by the euphonious title of ‘California Joe; mo other name seemed ever to have been given bim, and no other name appeared to be necessary. “This was the man whom, upon a short ac-. quaintance, I decided to appoint as chief of the scouts,” * * & ‘ * * * ‘“‘ As the four detachments already referred to were to move as soon as it was dark, it was desirable that the scouts should be at-once or-: ganized and assigned. So, sending for Cali- fornia Joe, I informed him of his promotion and what was expected of him and his men..|.2 After this official portion of the interview had been completed, it seemed proper to Joe’s mind | 22 that a more intimate acquaintance between us: should be cultivated, as we bad never met be- fore. in furtherance of this idea, was frankly put as follows: ‘¢¢ See hyar, gineral, in order thet we hev no misonderstandin’, I’d jist like ter ax ye a few questions. First, are ye an ambulance man er a boss man?’ “Professing ignorance of his meaning, I re- ajuested him to explain: ‘¢¢T mean,’ said he, ‘do yer b’lieve in catch- in’ Injuns in ambulances or on hosaback? - “ Still assuming ignorance, I replied, ‘ Well, Joe, I believe in catching Indians wherever we can find them, whether shey are in ambulances or on horsebgck. : “<Thet ain’t what I’m sicbeint at,’ he re- sponded. ‘S’pose you're after Injuns and really want to hev a tussel with ’em, would yer start after ’°em on hossback er would yer climb inter a ambulance and be hauled after ’em? Thet’s ther p’int I’m a-headin’ fer.’ ‘¢T answered that I would prefer the method on horseback, provided I really desired to catch the Indians; but if I wished them to catch me, I would adopt the ambulance system of attack. “¢You’ve hit the nail squar’ on the head,’ said he. ‘I’ve bin with ’em on the plains whar they started out after Injuns on wheels jist as ef they war goin'to a town funeral in ther States, an’ they stood ‘bout as many chances av catchin’ Injuns ez a six-mule team would uv 16 Trusr Her Nor. His first interrogatory, addressed to me- catchin’ a pack of thievin’ ki-o-tes, jist as much, Why, thet sort uv work iz only fun fer the Iujuns; they don’t want anything bet- ter. Yer ort to’ve see’d how they. peppered it to us, and we a-doin’ o’ nuthin’ all the time. Sum uv ’em wuz afraid the mules war goin’ to stampede and run off with ther train and all our forage an’ grub, but thet wuz impossible; fer besides the big loads uv corn an’ bacon an’ baggage the wagons hed in ’em, thar war from eight to a dozen infantry ten piled into ’em besides, Yer ort to hev heard the quarter- master in charge uv of the train tryin’ to drive infantry men out uv the wagous and git them into ther fight. I ’spect he wuza Irishman, by his talk, fer he said to ’em: ‘‘Git out uv thim wagons; get.out uv thim wagons; yez’ll hev me thried fer disobadiance uv orders for marchin’ tin min in a wagon whin I’ve ordhers | fer but ait.’’ ” California Joe was killed, as was his friend Wild Bill, by the hand of an assassin. He was seated in front of his cabin at Red Cloud, Dakota, on Dec. 5th 1876, cleaning his dearly loved weapons, when some foe fired at him from an ambush and shot him through the heart. 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