Beadle's Dime Novels No. 119: Blackeyes — page 13: what you’re looking at

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TWENTY YEARS AGO. 15 all the requisites for encamping: I wish you had consented to employ Bill Ward as a guide and scout, for he is a ‘good hunter and veecianneay and he knows every mile of this country.” “ Confound you, sir, do you call this a road ” angrily ex- claimed the major, jerking up his horse, which had stumbled and fallenover a large boulder. “ Itis enough to make a saint swear to be forced to trayel in this wretched country. There! as I live, the foremost wagon is. stalled, and the whole train has stopped.. As you go, send Captain Sardis to me,” The young officer bowed, with a military salute, turned his horse and rode to the rear, while Major Buttress con- tinued to grumble, and to abuse all mountains, mountaineers, “and rasgally rad-aikionn, e sri a CHAPTER i. “WAR wirnout ART. Taevtime when the above detailed: discussion concerning the art of Indian warfare took place, was near the middle of autumn, some twenty years ago. - we : - Major Benjamin Buttress, a Virginian and a veteran fice, , ‘who had served in ‘all the wars of his country since “his boy- hood, had been ordered from Missouri to Fort Smith, thence to New Mexico, and thence to the vicinity of the Great Salt Lake, where he was to establish a military post fot the pro- tection of traders and emigrants. » His command consisted of nearly one hundred infantry and about fifty dragoons, beside a number of teamsters and others. “He was accompanied by a large train of wagons and pack-horses, conveying supplies of all kinds for the expedition and for the post that was fo be established. The party had thus far proceeded with safety and without difficulty, -having passed. through Santa: Fe and up the valley of Taos, and were approaching the Sierra Madre, one of the most southern oan of the mod Mouti- tains. 4 Major Buttress, as has been: ald; was a veteran of nearly > ry mv Comiebookscomy