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;ind even his gun stock. He had died but 

 recently, but the wolves had mangled his body 

 beyond all possibility of recognition. Another 

 A\ hose bones I discovered had a bullet hole in 

 his head, and, judging from the position of his 

 gun, had evidently shot himself to put an end 

 to his sutferings. Still another had his cloak 

 \vrapped about him, and had probably frozen 

 or died from hunger and cold together, as there 

 were no marks of violence on the body. 

 These are only a few of the many instances I 

 might mention, but of course a great many 

 of the skeletons were those of Indians, but I 

 could not distinguish them from those of 

 whites. It is enough to know that they per- 

 ished alone on the plains, and what their suf- 

 ferings were no one knows. 



My readers will see that it is much the safer 

 plan, when persons are unacquainted, with the 

 plains go out on them, to emply a good guide, 

 and even then it will not do to take every one 

 that offers himself, as there are plenty who 

 profess to be acquainted with the country that 

 know nothing about it, and a person v/ould be 



