Part 23 (1/2)

This was during Mr McKinley's first adton, saw the President, and explained to hihtythe National Park from the East It would be, I told him, the most wonderful scenic road in the West Mr Roosevelt ordered the building of this road, which has now beco Horn Basin is one of the richest of American oil lands, and the Pennsylvania of the West for coal production Every one of the prophecies that Professor Marsh made to us around that campfire has come true

In December, 1870, I was sent as a witness to Fort DA Russell, near the city of Cheyenne, where a court-ivenof our house These I pro at Fort Russell I found many officers, also witnesses at the court-martial, and put in ave us an opportunity to ”do” Cheyenne That town furnished abundant opportunities for entertaina I sent for ed between him and a Cheyenne favorite called Green's Colt But before Tall Bull could arrive the court-martial was over and the race was off I sold the animal to Lieutenant Mason Ithem RS

Van Tassell, Tim Dier, Major Talbot, Luke Morrin, Posey Wilson, and many others They constituted a pretty wild bunch, and kept me so busy that I had no time to think about Mrs Cody's furniture

On my return, when she asked us for it, I told her I couldn't bring it with me on the train, and that et furniture that would be good enough for her, so I had sent to Dewey & Stone at O over to the club, where I wrote to Dewey & Stone for all the articles my wife required In a week the furniture arrived at Fort McPherson station I got a couple of six-mule teams and went after it quick When it arrived at the house and was unpacked Mrs

Cody was greatly delighted

About this time General Emory was very much annoyed by petty offenses in the vicinity of the Post by civilians over whom he had no jurisdiction There was no justice of the peace near the Post, and he wanted some kind of an officer with authority to attend to these troublesome persons One day he told me that I would hly, General,” I replied ”I don't know any ” ”That doesn't ood squire You accompany Mr Woodin and Mr Snell to North Platte in o on your bond, and you will be appointed a justice of the peace”

A number of officers from the Post went to North Platte for this occasion After I was duly sworn in, there was a celebration I arrived ho in ignorance ofwith afor the squire She was assuring him that no squire was on the premises

”Doesn't Buffalo Bill live here?” asked the ot to do with it?”

By this time I had dressed, and I went to the door I informed my wife, to her amazement, that I was really a squire, and turned to the visitor to learn his business

He was a poor e bunch of horses was being driven past his camp, and one of his two ani the other, he followed and deive it up He wanted a writ of replevin

I asked Mrs Cody if she could write a writ of replevin and she said she had never heard of such a thing I hadn't either

I asked the ot breakfast for us He refused the drink I set out for hi in this writ of replevin business, so I drank his as well as mine

Then I buckled onher gently, said: ”You will have to be constable for me today”

Tothese proceedings, I said:

”Don't be alar into action Coet on your horse”

”Why,” he protested, ”you have no papers to serve on the man, and you have no constable”

”Don't worry,” I said ”I'll soon show you that I a about ten miles e overtook the herd of horses I found the boss, riding a big gray horse ahead of the herd I ordered him to round up the herd

”By what authority!” he demanded ”Are you a constable?”

I said I was not only a constable, but the whole court, and one of his men at the same time whispered to him: ”Be careful, that is Buffalo Bill!” At this time, as well as for years past, I had been chief United States detective for the aruide I felt that with the offices of justice and constable added to these titles I had all the power necessary to take one horse

The herd boss evidently thought so, too After asking iftold that it was, he said: