my Mother--I Awake
one Morning to Find myself a Soldier--I am put on Detached Service as
a Scout--The Chase after Price--An Unexpected Meeting with Wild
Bill--An Unpleasant Situation--Wild Bill's Escape from the Southern
Lines--The Charge upon Price's Army--We return to Springfield.
CHAPTER XII.
A WEDDING.
I Fall in Love--A Successful Courting Expedition--I am Married--The
Happiest Event of my Life--Our Trip up the Missouri River--The
Bushwhackers Come after me--I become Landlord of a Hotel--Off for
the Plains once more--Scouting on the Frontier for the Government--A
Ride with General Custer--An Expedition from Fort Hays has a Lively
Chase after Indians--Cholera in Camp.
CHAPTER XIII.
A MILLIONAIRE.
A Town Lot Speculation--"A Big Thing"--I become Half-Owner of a
City--Corner Lots Reserved--Rome's Rapid Rise--We consider
ourselves Millionaires--Dr. Webb--Hays City--We Regard ourselves as
Paupers--A Race with Indians--Captain Graham's Scout after the
Indians.
CHAPTER XIV.
EARNING A TITLE.
Hunting for the Kansas Pacific--How I got my Name of "Buffalo
Bill"--The Indians give me a Lively Chase--They get a Dose of their
own Medicine--Another Adventure--Scotty and myself Corraled by
Indians--A Fire Signal brings Assistance--Kit Carson.
CHAPTER XV.
CHAMPION BUFFALO KILLER.
A Buffalo Killing Match with Billy Comstock--An Excursion party
from St. Louis come out to Witness the Sport--I win the Match, and am
declared the Champion Buffalo Killer of the Plains.
CHAPTER XVI.
A COURIER.
Scouting--Captured by Indians--A Strategic Escape--A Hot
Pursuit--The Indians led into an Ambush--Old Satanta's Tricks and
Threats--Excitement at Fort Larned--Herders and Wood-Choppers
Killed by the Indians--A Perilous Ride--I get into the wrong Pew--Safe,
arrival at Fort Hays--Interview with General Sheridan--My ride to Fort
Dodge--I return to Fort Larned--My Mule gets away from me--A long
Walk--The Mule Passes In his Chips.
CHAPTER XVII.
AN APPOINTMENT.
General Sheridan appoints me Guide and Chief of Scouts of the Fifth
Cavalry--The Dog Soldiers--General Forsyth's Fight on the Arickaree
Fork.
CHAPTER XVIII.
SCOUTING.
Arrival of the Fifth Cavalry at Fort Hays--Out on a Scout--A little
Skirmish with Indians--A Buffalo Hunt--A False Alarm in camp--A
Scout on the Beaver--The Supply Camp is Surprised--Arrival of
General Carr--The new Lieutenant and his Reception--Another Indian
Hunt--An Engagement--A Crack Shot--I have a little Indian fight of my
own--Return to Fort Wallace--While hunting Buffaloes with a small
Party, we are Attacked by Fifty Indians.
CHAPTER XIX.
A TOUGH TIME.
A Winter's Campaign in the Canadian River Country--Searching for
Penrose's Command--A Heavy Snow-Storm--Taking the Wagon Train
down a Mountain Side--Camp Turkey--Darkey Deserters from
Penrose's Command--Starvation in Penrose's Camp--We reach the
Command with Timely Relief--Wild Bill--A Beer
Jollification--Hunting Antelopes--Return to Fort Lyon.
CHAPTER XX.
AN EXCITING CHASE.
A Difficulty with a Quartermaster's Agent--I give him a Severe
Pounding--Stormy Interview with General Bankhead and Captain
Laufer--I put another "Head" on the Quartermaster's Agent--I am
Arrested--In the Guard-House--General Bankhead Releases me--A
Hunt after Horse Thieves--Their Capture--Escape of Bevins--His
Recapture--Escape of Williams--Bevins Breaks Out of Jail--His
Subsequent Career.
CHAPTER XXI.
A MILITARY EXPEDITION.
The Fifth Cavalry is Ordered to the Department of the Platte--Liquids
vs. Solids--A Skirmish with the Indians--Arrival at Fort
McPherson--Appointed Chief of Scouts--Major Frank North and the
Pawnee Scouts--Belden the White Chief--The Shooting Match--Review
of the Pawnee Scouts--An Expedition against the Indians--"Buckskin
Joe."
CHAPTER XXII.
A DESPERATE FIGHT.
Pawnees vs. Siouxs--We strike a Large Trail--The Print of a Woman's
Shoe--The Summit Springs Fight--A Successful Charge--Capture of the
Indian Village--Rescue of a White Woman--One hundred and forty
Indians Killed--I kill Tall Bull and Capture his Swift Steed--The
Command proceeds to Fort Sedgwick--Powder Face--A Scout after
Indian Horse-Thieves--"Ned Buntline"--"Tall Bull" as a Racer--Powder
Face wins a Race without a Rider--An Expedition to the Niobrara--An
Indian Tradition.
CHAPTER XXIII.
ADMINISTERING JUSTICE.
I make my Home at Fort McPherson--Arrival of my Family--Hunting
and Horse Racing--An Indian Raid--Powder Face Stolen--A Lively
Chase--An Expedition to the Republican River Country--General
Duncan--A Skirmish with the Indians--A Stern Chase--An Addition to
my Family--Kit Carson Cody--I am made a Justice of the Peace--A
Case of Replevin--I perform a Marriage Ceremony--Professor Marsh's
Fossil-Hunting Expedition.
CHAPTER XXIV.
HUNTING EXPEDITIONS.
The Grand Hunt of General Sheridan, James Gordon Bennett, and other
Distinguished Gentlemen--From Fort McPherson to Fort
Hays--Incidents of the Trip--"Ten Days on the Plains"--General Carr's
Hunting Expedition--A Joke on McCarthy--A Search for the Remains
of Buck's Surveying Party, who had been Murdered by the Indians.
CHAPTER XXV.
HUNTING WITH A GRAND DUKE.
The Grand Duke Alexis Hunt--Selection of a Camp--I Visit Spotted
Tail's Camp--The Grand Duke and Party arrive at Camp
Alexis--Spotted Tail's Indians give a Dance--The Hunt--Alexis Kills his
First Buffalo--Champagne--The Duke Kills another Buffalo--More
Champagne--End of the Hunt--Departure of the Duke and his Party.
CHAPTER XXVI.
SIGHT-SEEING.
My Visit in the East--Reception in Chicago--Arrival in New York--I
am well Entertained by my old Hunting Friends--I View the Sights of
the Metropolis--Ned Buntline--The Play of "Buffalo Bill"--I am Called
Upon to make a Speech--A Visit to my Relatives--Return to the West.
CHAPTER XXVII.
HONORS.
Arrival of the Third Cavalry at Fort McPherson--A
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