Part 23 (2/2)
”Well, there is no need of having a fuss over one horse”
”No,” said I, ”a horse doesn't ood deal to this poor irant”
”Well,” said the herd boss, ”how do you propose to settle it?”
”I a to take you and your whole outfit to Fort McPherson There I aive you the limit--six months and a five-hundred-dollar fine”
”I can't afford to go back to the Fort,” he pleaded, ”let's settle it right here What will you take to call it off?”
”One hundred and fifty dollars,” I said, ”and quick!”
Reaching down into his pocket, he pulled out a wallet filled with bills and counted out a hundred and fifty dollars By this tiht his ani it, near by
”Partner,” I said to hio back hoive you a little advice
Be careful when a stranger gets into your herd and the owner overtakes you and deiven you, for you ought to know by this ti offense”
He said: ”I didn't care a blank about your being justice of the peace and constable combined, but when I found out you were Buffalo Bill it was tiht, old fellow,” I said, ”good-by”
As he rode off he called: ”It orth a hundred and fifty dollars just to get a good look at you,” and the other uard-mount was over, and a number of officers were in the club When they learned how I had disposed of eneral, as verythe outside civilians how you handle your court,” he said The story soon beca country Even the ladies of the Post heard of it, and told my wife and sisters, to whoreat joke
CHAPTER VIII
Early in the month of September, 1874, as received at Fort McPherson that General Sheridan and a party of friends were corand hunt in the vicinity They further proposed to explore the country from Fort McPherson to Fort Hays in Kansas They arrived in a special car at North Platte, eighteenof September 22
In the party besides General Sheridan were James Gordon Bennett, of _The New York Herald_, Leonard Lawrence Jeroh, General HE Davies, Captain M
Edward Rogers, Colonel J Schuyler Crosby, Saer, of the Western Union, Charles Wilson, editor of _The Chicago Journal_, Quartermaster-General Rucker, and Dr Asch, of General Sheridan's staff
They were met at the station by General Emory and Major Broith a cavalry company as escort and a sufficient nuuished visitors and their baggage
At the Fort they found the garrison, under the co their arrival
A train of sixteen wagons was provided to carry the baggage supplies and forage for the hunting trip Besides these there were three or four horse-auns were carried, and in which ht ride when they became weary of the saddle I accompanied the expedition at the request of General Sheridan He introduced h-toned outfit I was to accompany, I determined to put on a little style ht buckskin, trie of the same material I put on a crimson shi+rt, elaborately decorated on the boso a showy horse which was a gallant stepper, I rode down to the fort, rifle in hand
The expedition was soon under way First in line rode General Sheridan, followed by his guests; then the orderlies Then careyhounds, brought along to course antelopes and rabbits
With the a to Lieutenant Hayes, captured during an Indian fight These were harnessed to a light wagon, which General Sheridan occasionally used These little anior and endurance than any we brought with us