Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-05-04
FOOTSTEPS ar THE DOOR.
THE DICK TURPIN OF THE
WEST.


WEST.
HiIdebrand Mt the Head of n Band
of One Hundred Men ON his Way
40 RieII and the Red River.
An enterprising reporter of the Sioux
City Times has had an interview with
the notorious Sam. Hilderbrand, a highly
sensational account of which he prints in
his paper. This enterprising reporter
knew Hildebrand well while acting in the
same capacity for st. Louis newspaper.
. he 'tnevcr forgot the noble bearing and
penetrating eye of the Missouri outlaw,
and consequently, when be saw him
standing on the platform of the Sioux
City and Pacific railroad, he knew him at
once" Having learned never to miss an
opportunity to transfix noted character
for the benefit of his readers, the enter
prising reporter started in upon an inter
view at once:
Hellol Sam, and our hand was in his
brawny mauler.
Hello, old buck, you up here-too, be
youG managed, by hard scratching, to
get away from them fellows down in Mis-
souri,, didn't Il They'd a glen some
thin to be as near me now as you be;
but, tell you, made some o. them ere
fellers sick.n
How did you get away, and what's be-
come of the boys2
81 had pretty tough time TO getaway.
you bet. The boys are all right. Jake
is dead The sheriff popped him. I've
got now one hundred and thirty men-as
slick boys as ever you laid your peppers
on"
But about your escapel
well, you recollect the night the
sheriff of St Francois and his posse of
men wor stoppin' at Wade's farm. We
thought it was up, but two of the boys
went in to join in hunting us, and man
aged to get them all tight. We piled
some wood around the house and sot fire
TO ii so as to keep them warm"
What set fire to the house9
''You're right-but the sheriff-he's a
tough old coon, managed to get away,
but the rest were baked brown and ten
der"
Anu lne TWO men
''They came out before the oven was
hot enough. The sheriff started back for
more men, and we made tracks for the
North. We were leetle too fur away
from our enemies, and they were too many
for us, and we were among persons who
done us nc hurt, and we couldn't get up
any excitement. You know that old tiger
you saw in the buckskin Monday"
Your rifle
''YOu bet. Guess how many notches
along that old critter2"
I've no idea That's not the one the
hunters took from you and carried to JEFF
ferson and then to St Louis?
That's all a trumped up story about
that ere rifle. This one had all through
the war, and all through Missouri, and
she has 476 notches along her barrel
You know what that means2"
You killed that many, supposed
you're mighty right. Jake popped
nearly as many-in fact all the boys done
well, there's no discount on that. There's
many one we popped nobody ever heard
anything Of We let the ID abolition
robbers see that they couldn't walk over
us, no how you can fix it.
Eve started all the way up through the
woods, meeting every once in a while
We had HI roarin' time when we met,
and gave the RAIDS some trouble wherever
we found EN-.
''Keerkirk (Keokuk) had the b ,ys 90
up the river as far as st. Paul, and for
fear l might be known, l started this
way. l went from Keerl1irk to Des
Moines and crossed over to Boone, where
got on the northwestern cars till l came
to the junction, and got up this far"
And where are you bound for now
going into farming
"Farmin' HI. We have been too
long bushwhacking to lay our minds
down to farming any more. We'd gone
out agin the Injins, but we owe nothing
to Uncle Sam-hcrobbed us of everything
we had"
And what do you propose to do?
"Ihat's what I'm agoin' TO tell you, if
your inquisitiYe little soul II give me a
leetlo time. Well, we've hearn tell that
there's to be lively time up in the Red
river country, and we're agoin' to take a
hand in.
The boys II 60 from St. Paul TO st
Cloo est. Cloud along the river, and then
NCIOSS lHC COuulIg W lIlC Odll NdlCT region
IN Dakota.
Sim goin' up to Benton, then along
the river to Fort Clarke or McRee village,
and then TO the northwest to the head of
the MinneYallen or the Devils lake, where
We'li meet for work, Wen make this
oas startin' point, and we think We can
be of some use to those fellows who are
irwin TO give old England fits in that di-
rection. We're used TO this thing, an il
seems TO be the only openin' for us just
now. We have $50 as handy boys as
ever pulled trigger, an I'll go my bottom
dollar they can whip 1000 red coats
M La!t as MANY blue coats. if they only
got their way
''Several other particulars" continues
this voracious reporter, ''were gone intO'
but are withheld for want of space He
concludes by congratulating the Red River
ipsurscnls ION The acquisition of this
band of despeTadoes, who would think as
little Of going through brigade of the
Queens own as they would of roasting a
=. niece of buffalo"
IauAT CHARMED HY DOG,