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ones. We were advised to go to Fort Sill, in 

 the Indian Territory, and start on our buffalo 

 hunt from there. We took letters of introduc- 

 tion from General Sheridan and others, but 

 when we presented them some days after our ar- 

 rival at the Post they were waved aside by our 

 courteous hosts who assured us we were most 

 welcome on our own account and needed no let- 

 ters. I recall the amusement of a group of offi- 

 cers when I told them I had had letters of in- 

 troduction turned down before and instanced 

 several from Gen. Benjamin F. Butler which he 

 had given me for presentation to friends in 

 Charleston and other Southern cities. 



We went first to Detroit where I had a little 

 property that needed attention and thence to 

 Chicago. Here an old friend tried to shunt us 

 off from our program, and begged us to go with 

 him over the ground where he and I had hunted 

 some years before. He almost succeeded, for 

 the memory of that other trip was enticing. 

 Lyons was a friend of my boyhood in New Eng- 

 land who had become a broker in Chicago. 



