Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1912-04-24

the Mississippi" said r a Douglass
a plopeer citizen Of GUT rie. we
sci 20 call IL the Great Plairs 'a
these lays when Was 10 years GA
7 went vita my parents and an EN-
grant party overland IN 1876 from
Council Bluffs. a.. 20 the neishbor-
hood % Denver We lett Com I'll
gmess % April and on July Z were
m SIGHT Of Pixies Peak. Loidy. hC~
love tl think OF that trip. and the
wonderful things that appealed % my
noyish imaFinati0n and enthusiasm
every root Of the way
When We reached Council Bluffs
from orr home IN Iowa We foInd tlla'
danger from the Indians on the plains
was SOD great thai the United States
army officers would permit no wagon
train having less than roo persons 10
undertake the journey. The sioux
we're making their last stand. raiding
tar down into Nebraska. finally t1
.annihHate Custer and his Seventh
cavalry ON thc Little Pig Horn .r thH
following JIne
when We moved ont Of Council
Hmtls our partv numbered % men
women and children There were
eighty wagons in the train and with
IS went l,u head OF cattle. an milch
cows For me the DAYS rolled hv ~
lam endless panorama OF delight.
Mounted on little mule. 10 was nv
dry 10 ride ahead and drive the CO
tie. aud ! rode that little mule every
loot Of tho way from Council Rluffs
10 our destination We followed tha
Platte river mos of the way The
country practically was unsettled, and
for one POO mile stretch We ala not
see g house
Met the Pawnccs.
When we reached the Loup river
re found IL high IN flood and Went
into camp 20 wait for the waters 90
bsile 81 this place We're Campad
the PaWuec tribe OF Indians. perhaps
Ia thousand of them. on their way
south 10 their rresenf home boz Ok
/ luhoma They were escorted ny about
/ t4r United states soldiers. Tine Plr-
uoes bad been hayin. @ rough tim
.lor number OF years iu heir con.
UHfs with the Sioux. md were being
rapidly cvtorminaied by tacir more
powerful enemies The bows with the
.,mierant train had lots Of fen plyirc
. with the Indian children, mat Jared
rather badly Invariably upen rD-
turning from the Pawnee camp. t,e
white children would Dee foJnd strip
ped of their clothing. which had been
stolen by the sIusvs for their lawn,
offspring Many a fight we tdl With
the indian hoys
Unwilling to wait LONGER for IN.
lLoup % become t)rdatlc, We hired
The Pawnees 10 swim our cattle across
paying then a liberal sim OF money
More than a hundred warriors, strip
/ red 20 their nreech-Clouts moIut j
their Wiry ponies and drove tho cat
tie over the bank in a bunch T. was
Ia wild and picturesque scene as horse
men and cattle struggled across thC
yellow flood Only five or six hea
Iuf cattle were lost The Loup was
folly a quarter OF a mile wide.
While in CANT near the Pawnee'
our outfit exhausted all IFS peunics
more than 300. in putting them mp az
/ targets TO be shot at Nth bow an
arrow bv the Indians The pennies
were fastened in the slit end Of \
.atiok set upright IN the ground II
the arrow struck the penny the bow
imam cot the penny. hut the penny wac
not paid over Il the arrow nit tha
stock remember that an Indian
named PlWnoc John. the most exner'
bowman IN his tribe. then won all
Inc pennies from the other Indians.
After crassing the Loup we enter
cd the buffalo country about the lat.
ter part OF May n has been esti
mated that az that time there wor,
Istill about i.n0o.oo0 buffalo on N,
plains The herds wera moving north
ward in their annual MIGRATION Tn,
main herd had alreadv passed and
with n the buffalo hunters TW
years later only q million remained
We saw no herds lartor than puC
hut was wonderful sight As far 70,
the eye could reach the plains orl
dotted With tho nrcasscs at buffalo
IS q loyish feat jumped from car
1ss for over h.lf miI.
without touDbin- Ground The amos
pherc was So dry that the sar,a.s.
Lad NOT deoavad merely shri,slcl
and there was no stencil The car
cassos wero thiCkost near the strsau.
whore the buffalo had been shot dowr
IN going for uateT ~ one big wal
low ] counted more than 800 cor
rasses
There was still danger To- hahn.
run over IN stampedes and soyc-a
times We were forced 70 protect orr
selves We did this by forming oui
wagons In the shape NJ a wedqe. =.
divert the buffalo 90 either side
ahead OF the wagons We threw ou'
a line OF horsemen 10 fire into m,
stampeding herd as Il approached
Hardly q day passed without ou
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