192 THE ADVENTURES OF 



When we drove in the people came running 

 up to ask if we had seen or heard anything of 

 the Indians. They then told that there had 

 been a big fight in the vicinity of the station. 

 in which twenty-eight Indians had been killed. 

 They had given us up for gone, though we 

 had never seen an Indian or thought of dan- 

 ger. 



I will now^ tell you of a wild horse chase 

 that I happened to get into a short time alter 

 my buffalo hunt. Three of us started out to 

 take three herds, one apiece. We took four 

 hands along with us. On the second day I 

 killed a load of buffalo and and sent a man in 

 to Lakin with it, and w^e went on until we 

 found wild horses, then we camped and pre- 

 pared lor business. 



I selected for mine a herd of twenty-six — 

 twenty-five ba^^s and a roan — while the other 

 two took one a herd of twenty-two and the 

 other a herd of twenty-four, and we started 

 out to see who could do the best. The herds 

 started in the same general direction, going 

 northwest into Colorado about one hundred 



