CHARLES L. YOUNGBLOOD. 3 I 



with US for some time, watching very closely 

 for apportunity to make a dash on us, but we 

 were in readiness for them. We had our 

 guns in our hands, with our thumbs on the 

 hammer and our fingers on the trigger. We 

 could have shot in a second, and dropped ten 

 Indians, and they knew it. Seeing that it 

 would not be at all easy to punish us, they soon 

 rode away muttering imprecations on us as 

 they went. They did not disturb us any more, 

 and we resumed our hunting as usual for 

 thirty days, averaging a hundred buffalo a day. 

 At the close ol this hunt I went back to 

 Missouri, and remained about six months, 

 when I again started west. I made arrange- 

 ments with A. Buckmaster and L. J. Shilder 

 at Warrensburg, Mo., to sell meat for me, and 

 took two men, Louis Allred and Silas Mc- 

 Ferrin, with me. After about fourteen days 

 travel we came to "good hunting." Buffaloes 

 were plentiful and I made an average of eight 

 a day. The hides and flesh of eight good 

 buffalo are worth about $50, so you see it 

 was paying me pretty well. 



