The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-11-12
JUMPING ON BUFFALOES.
l'ger Jacks Truest story OF a Marvel
Gus Escape.

Tiger Jacks Truest Story OF a Marvel
Gus Escape.
'~Speaking of Liars" said the western
Kansas man, as he knocked the ashes
out of his pipe and looked at the real
estate agent out of the corner of his
eye, according to the Kansas City Jour-
nal, Il think western Kansas can show
up some as rare specimens as | ever
SET eyes on. Now, there was old John
s.. III not give his full name, because
the old man still lives out somewhere
near Nova, and If he was to get in
PRINT as a noted liar he might get hot.
When l read an account of Speaker
Bill Streets speech up in Jewell coun-
[! at an Old settlers picnic, where he
said that he had stood on a knoll and
seen a dense, moving herd of buffalo
as 1ar as the eye could reach. some
way it brought old John to mind.
When first struck the s~hort-grass
country old John was there. He got
me cornered n day and was so tick
lea to get a fresh victim that he hardly
stopped ever to AXE a drink. until he
N"N N"AN" AIlS oo luli ludl | was mar
TALLY Paralyzed for a month afterward
he gave me to understand that for
years before he came to Kansas he was
one OF the most dreaded desperadoes
and Indian killers that ever roamed
through the Rocky mountains. T
leaEned afterward that he wouldn't
night a cat Il actually trembled with
rear whenever his hatchet-faced wife
turned loose on him with her tongue
but when l first met him his blood
thirsty talk fairly made by blood run
cold.
Informed me that he was known
far and wide through the mountains
as Tiger Jack. the terror of the
Rockies. But l was going to speak of
MS buffalo story. I asked him one
day, just to bring him out, if he ever
got into n tight places when he was
hunting buffalo. oh, I We been in
places that | suppose most fellers
would call ticklish.' he replied, but
never n place that. ratified Tiger,
Jack but once. and that time | own
was a little worried
~ was huntin' buffalo down the
Medicine valley, along in 20. The
country was just alive with the crit
tiers and | was knockin' 'em right and
left. when all at once somethin' start
ed a stampede, and three or four mill
lion buffalo came rushin' down the VAL
ley, just maxim the ground shake as
fhpV nGJ7n Gov, - ~.
nave to get out of there or be run over.
but my pony was all tagged out and the
nero kept gaining on him at every
Jump. saw that them buffalo was 60
IN to run that pony down and that
something had to be done and done
quick. Well, sir, I seen that there was
just one thing to do; 1 waited till the
head buffalo was right on my pony's
flank and then made a jump and land
ed right on that buffalo's hump.
Then, sir, I just went jumpin' from
one back of one buffalo to another and
shootin' as I went-thought mavbe
you know, that I could scatter the herd
and get a chance to get down to the
ground. Well, sir, when | struck the
rear end of that stampede l was only
a mile from home. I went out the
next day and measured the distance
from where J jumped from M pony to
where | hit the ground and found l had
travelled on the backs of buffalo for
sig miles and a quarter. I'll tell you
honestly. mister, l think it was a little
the closest shave I ever had"