l6o THE ADVENTURES OF 



CHAPTER XVII. 



HUNTING ON THE ''RANGE," ETC. 



The events detailed in the preceding chapter 

 resulted in leaving me without a hand, but I 

 soon struck a man by the name of Henderson. 

 He had a good team, and we were soon on 

 our way to the "range" with two teams. We 

 first went to White Woman Creek, and on 

 the way saw hundreds of antelopes, but we 

 were looking for buffalo, and did not disturb 

 them. Not finding any buffalo we crossed 

 the creek, where we camped for the night. 

 I killed an antelope for supper, and ihe next 

 day we moved on to Beaver Creek, and again 

 stopped tor the night, camping under the bluff 

 about twenty yards from the water. It was 

 cool, cloudy weather, and there was but little 

 water in the creek, but when we got up in the 

 morning we were surprised to find ourselves 

 surrounded by water, the more especially so, 

 because it had not rained at all during the 

 night. We could not understand it, as the 



