4 2o AN AMERICAN HUNTER 



der, is now a deputy marshal in New York, under District 

 Attorney Stimson himself a big game hunter, by the 

 way. Pat Garret, who slew Billy the Kid, I made Col- 

 lector of Customs at El Paso; and other scarred gun- 

 fighters of the vanished frontier, with to their credit deeds 

 of prowess as great as those of either Masterson or Garret, 

 now hold my commissions, on the Rio Grande, in the 

 Territories, or here and there in the States of the Rocky 

 Mountains and the Great Plains. 



