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CHAPTER XX. 



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Intend to go up the Wichita and Red Rivers. Grouse-shooting. 

 Creasing a horse. Poor settlers. A money-lending parson. 

 Danger of Mexican cooks. Henrietta in 1874. A norther. 

 Rough cowboys. Lose my horse. Return towards Henrietta. 

 Indians about. A suspicious horseman. Reach Henrietta. The 

 settlement raided by Black Kettle. The settlers cowed. A 

 preacher. The preacher and I put up in the same room. The 

 first night he scores ; the second I do. Life of a cowboy. A 

 new class of cowboy. A gentleman cowboy. A good shooting- 

 ground. I shoot a puma. A lucky sportsman . . . . . . 266 



CHAPTER XXI. 



Camp on Buffalo Creek. Awful thunder-storms. Two cowboys visit 

 our camp. We return the visit. Description of a shack. 

 Stories of attacks by Indians. A buck-jumper. A curious shot. 

 A refractory mare. Loss of a horse. A herd of wild horses. 

 Old Bridger's opinion of them. Camp nearly destroyed by fire. 

 Poisoning wild animals. A ghost story . . . . . . . . 278 



CHAPTER XXII. 



Resolve to go to the Judith Basin. Colonel P agrees to accompany 



me. Start for Carroll. Delay at Bismarck. Have some shoot- 

 ing. Journey by steamer up Missouri. Land to hunt every day. 

 Come upon an old hunter. His history and end. The remaining 

 Indians concerned in the Minnesota massacre. Arrival at Buford. 

 Freak of a lieutenant. Symonds joins me. Start with Major 

 Reed for Judith Basin. The ways of Indian agents described. 



Join Colonel P in camp. Good news of game. Adventure 



with a bear. Description of the Judith Basin. Hunting 

 mountain-sheep. Reed and Bowles at home. Visit the Crows' 

 camp. Go with them to meet the Bannocks. Buy a horse from 

 the Bannocks . 287 



