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beauty of the climate of Montana that these bodies were not 

 in the least unpleasant, but had simply shrivelled up. 



The whole country was covered with cattle and cowboys, very 

 poor substitutes, in my eyes, for buffaloes and Indians ; and I 

 could not help regretting the days when I had ridden over that 

 beautiful country, my rifle across the front of my saddle, 

 depending on it for my daily food, and never knowing how 

 soon I might have to use it in self-defence. Texas, too, was 

 changed even more : towns have sprung up all over the prairies, 

 wretched little Henrietta being now quite an important place, 

 and Granville a city, while the scene of the Custer fight is now 

 enclosed as fields. 



While writing the foregoing chapters I have lived again in 

 the past, remembering none of its drawbacks ; and if I have 

 given my readers a portion of the pleasure which I have felt 

 myself, my task has not been in vain. 



THE END. 



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