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CHAPTER XV. 



AFTER WILD HORSES AGAIN INDIANS A 



BIG DRIVE A CLOSE BRUSH WITH INDIAS. 



My good luck in this chase inspired me to 

 try it again. I wrote to Missouri for my son 

 and son-in-law to come out and help me, and 

 in the meantime I allowed the saddle horses 

 to rest and recuperate. They arrived in a few 

 days and we started out, again south of the 

 Arkansas River. When we arrived in the 

 region of Wild Horse Lake, we found that it 

 had rained very heavily, and the lakes were 

 all full, so I told the boys to estabhsh the camp 

 about ten miles west of Wild Horse Lake, and 

 I started a drove of seventy-two horses. I 

 drove them twelve days, but at the end of that 

 time found that we were nearly out of pro- 

 visions, and told the boys that one of them must 

 go back to the station tor more. While he 

 was preparing to start I discovered a herd of 

 buffalo, and told them to put the horses to 



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