THE WOLF HUNTERS 



fine, and get him out. Tom agreed, and expressed 

 some sorrowful reflections on the blemish to Jack's 

 character which his love for liquor implied. 



As expected, Jack was found behind the bars. 

 He had evidently received a terrible beating, part 

 of it from a gang of toughs who had tried to rob 

 him, and the remainder from the police who had 

 finally, with much difficulty, arrested him. I was 

 obliged to pay a fine of twenty dollars to get Jack 

 out. 



A further search of Leavenworth City failed to 

 show us what we wanted, and we were getting dis- 

 couraged. To buy a team and a camp equipment 

 at the prices that were asked would take all the 

 money we could raise and still leave us poorly pre- 

 pared for our expedition. We were considering 

 the possibility of doing better in Kansas City and 

 Saint Joe and had half decided to go to those places 

 when one day Jack came rushing in, exclaiming: 



"I've struck it. I've struck just the rig that 

 we want. A lot of fine-haired fellows from the 

 East have just got in from a buffalo hunt with a 

 splendid outfit they want to sell. They will take 

 anything they can get for it, because they are 

 going back East on the railroad and are in a hurry 

 to get off; and who do you think I found in charge 

 of the outfit but Wild Bill Hickock?* Bill told 



* James Butler Hickock, better known as Wild Bill, was a famous 

 character in Kansas and the West from 1860 to 1876. In 1861 he 

 was sometimes called "Indian Bill" or "Buckskin Bill," but the 



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