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even if they have to pay him live dollars a 

 (lay. A good pilot is indispensible for several 

 reasons. In the first place, a novice, not 

 knowing where to look or how to hunt, might 

 wander over the plains tor weeks and never 

 see a buffalo, and even if he should find them, 

 the chances are, that il' left to himself, he would 

 not be able to kill any. Another reason is the 

 danger of suffering or even dying for water, 

 for, while there are springs here that afford a 

 barrel of water per minute, they are not so 

 numerous, nor so conspicuously located as to 

 make one at all liable to run into them. 



When I returned to Pierceville I concluded 

 to go to Missouri and spend a few Aveeks 

 with niy lamily. I reache^d home on the 13th 

 day of June, 1876, and remained there until 

 October, *when, in company A\nth my oldest 

 son and a man nar_:ed Baker, I started in a 

 wagon for the plains again. 



