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of a mile wide and lully a mile long, bearing 

 right toward us, and nearly upon us. He called 

 my attention to them as soon as possible, and 

 by the time I could get my gun they were 

 within twenty paces of us. We could- dis- 

 tinctly feel rhe ground tremble as they gal- 

 loped past, and during the time they were 

 passing I put in good time shooting, and when 

 they had gone by I had a good load, so we 

 dressed them and again went in. 



My boy then went back to Missouri, and I 

 hired a man by the name of George Daniels 

 for thirty dollars a month to go with me, but 

 he only stayed three weeks, when the Indians 

 scared him out, and he could not be persuaded 

 to stay any longer. I sent him out one morn- 

 ing after the horses, and, when about a quar- 

 ter of a mile from camp, he discovered a 

 a couple of Indians making a charge on him. 

 He came almost flying toward camp, scream- 

 ing for help at every jump. I ran out to see 

 what could be the matter, and the reds were 

 right after him, but I persuaded them to stop, 

 and he came up breathless from frio^ht and 



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