376 BUFFALO LAND. 



vastly more graphic tlian any words of mine could 

 be, but also to the end that the reader might become 

 acquainted with a genuine frontiersman — one of that 

 class which is wheeling into line with the immense 

 multitudes of Indians and buffalo that time and civil- 

 ization are bearing swiftly onward to hide among the 

 memories of the past. 



That the savages suffered very severely in their 

 several attacks upon that little band of heroes on the 

 Arickeree, was evident from the number of bodies 

 found by the relief, as it hastened forward from Fort 

 Wallace. The corpses were resting on hastily-con- 

 structed scaffolds, and some had evidently been 

 placed there while dying, as the ground underneath 

 was yet wet with blood. 



