26 THE ADVENTURES OF 



before she had time to recover shot her through 

 the heart. 



A few days after this we went about twenty 

 miles east of Cold Hell Creek, on the bed of 

 the Republican river, where we remained and 

 hunted about two weeks. We were here two 

 or three days before we saw any buffalo, but 

 on getting up one morning and going out a 

 mile or two, we saw the largest herd that I ever 

 saw anywhere. I could not tell how far east 

 and west they extended. They came in a run 

 that shook the ground like an earthquake, and 

 frightened our horses and made them almost 

 unmanageable. They were all that day and 

 night in passing. We wondered what could 

 be the cause for such a large herd passing on 

 a run, but found out that the Cheyenne Indians 

 and the Utes had been fighting, and the Utes, 

 being driven back, fired the prairie to prevent 

 pursuit. This fire in the big tall grass of the 

 prairie drove the buffalo, antelope and wolves 

 out. We kept firing on them and killed one 

 hundred and three while they were passing:. 

 We could have killed as many more, but 



