Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-07-26
THE YOUNG TERROR.
M. QUAD'S ADVICE 70 THE DIME
NOVEL READER.

M. QUAD'S ADVICE TO THE DIME
NOVEL READER.
The Proper Outfit for . Would BE Slayer
of Indians and Grizzlies-Arms and
Anmunition-The Best Method of Tack
ling Grizzly.
Come, my son, it Ii time you were get
ting ready for campaign against the In
ing Daring DAM" 'Ike, the Indian
Slayer" Gus, the Grizzly Killer and
other exciting and truthful stories in
tended to make a boy dissatisfied with
humdrum life, and your mind is made up
to go west.
You must have hn outfit. One reason
why so many boy hunters make failure
is because they econOnlize too much in
the outfit. Don't be stingy in buying guns
| 1t will be all the better if you have a
I Spencer carSine and a double barreled
shotgun to go with your Winchester
I Suppose you came suddenly upon a band
of eighteen Apache warriors. You could
only kill sixteen of them with your Win
+ chester. anc two would be left 70 ride off
and alarm the tribe. By having some
extra guns along you are sure of tho
whole crowd, and the tribe won't get on
to you.
And don't scrimp on bowie knives. It
would be an almost fatal mistake to start
out with only two. Buy four, at least.
They are for use at close quarters with
! grizzlies. OF course one bowie is enough
/ to kill one bear with, but you may be at
tackled by four bears at once, and four
/ knives would then be IN demand. If you
don't get but three bowies make up the
! deficiency with a Spanish stiletto or a
Moorish dagger. 1t Will come handy, not
only in close fight, but TO pick your
teeth with at the camp FIRE.
AND REeULse MoCCAsINa
| AS for dress, get the fringed buckskin,
q coonskin cap and regular moccasins.
Such things as shirts, collars, cuffs or
handkerchiefs would be only waste lug
gage. If you should appear in Miles City
with collar on it would give you away
at once. Nobody would suspect that you
were the young terror from the east who
was aching for a chance to tie knot in
grizzly bears tail.
You should take at least 200 pounds of
ammunition You may be corraled some
where in the Rocky mountains by 400
fierce and determined Indians, and you
don't want to lose your scalp for the want
OF q few extra cartridges. All the pro-
visions needed is q sack of jerked buffalo
meat. 1t doesn't make the least bit of
difference whether the buffalo was ierked
OF his feet, ever a precipice, or head over
heels. IL the meat is little fly blown it
VIII add TO your dignity Is q hunter. You
can chew plug tobacco or not, just as you
feel about it, but it would be wisest to do
So AL the champion terrors chew large
quantities, and the juice comes handy to
spit into q rattlesnake's eyes.
Wouldn't take q horse if were you.
He would be q great deal of trouble to
take care Of, and most of your hunting
Will be in a rough country. The true
terror has always gone afoot and always
will. Anybody on horseback can make
u faces at a grizzly and gallop CT out Of
reach.
One great mistake which the average
boy makes is planning to accomplish too
much the first season. Most of them fig
ure on wiping out about 600 Indians and
twice that number of bears. Keep your
estimates down to reasonable figure.
You feel ambitious AID enthusiastic, Of
can DO. Set your figures at about 400 Ia
dams and 800 grizzlies. This will be al
most two per day the year around, and
will keep you from spelling.
SCALP EVERY ONE.
l should scalp every Indian I shot. It
not only looks more business like to do so,
but that's what you've got q scalpin9
knife for and if you can get about 200
scalp locks you can make the incest door
mat you ever saw. II doesn' t hurt a dead
Indian bit to scalp him, and if you don't
take it, it will go to waste. 1t would be
well to have six mule team follow you
at the distance Of a mile or so to pick up
and care for the rifles, knives, bows and
arrows and war clubs of the slain Indians.
These can be run east by car lots and sold
at auction, and the profits will buy all
your ammunition. Don't exterminato
any particular tribe of red men, but kill
off about one-fourth of seven or eight dH-
ferent tribes. This will extend your
reputation as a terror.
AS to the best way Of killing an Indian,
shall not pretend to advise. Some boys
prefer to shoot him, and others believe in
sticking him with a knife. If you can
catch him in a deep gorge you might drop
q UlR OOWlOcE uCWu OU LIB uclO AuOtucE
way is to catch him by the foot with a
lasso, and drag him over the earth until
his spinal column is worn down to a tooth
pick. In any event the fun will be all on
your side.
It's little different with the grizzly
bear. He won't be quite SO terror stricken
over your sudden appearance, being built
On different plan. You expect soma
show of resistance, however, that you may
have opportunity to show your pluck.
Some of these pale faced, weak kneed
boys hold grizzly of at long range and
Ill him up with bullets, but you will
never see their wood cuts in dime novel.
The true Terror will wind his Mexican
serape around his left arm, hold it out
for the bear to chew on, and, while the
bear is busy getting meal, put the
bowie knife into him to the heart. You
will be trifle nervous with your first
bear. but after that it will be as easy as
climbing fence. The claws should be
from the skin and sold in a diff |
ferent lot. The latest quotation on bears
claws is $16 per bushel, and if you can't |
average more than two bushels per day |
you Will still make good thing Of it |
NJ. Quad in Detroit Free Press.