. Butcher's pioneer history of Custer County : and short sketches of early days in Nebraska . bout the same age as theson of the man who dogged his steps awaiting only a favorable opportunityto wreak vengeance. At last, four years after the release, I. P. Olive andhis son, William, were in Colorado. One evening young Olive had a quarrelwith a stranger over a game of billiards and was shot dead. The next day,while the elder Olive was participating in a round-up of some cattle, he gotinto a quarrel with a man disguised as a cowboy and was instantly killedwhile trying to draw his revolver. T
. Butcher's pioneer history of Custer County : and short sketches of early days in Nebraska . bout the same age as theson of the man who dogged his steps awaiting only a favorable opportunityto wreak vengeance. At last, four years after the release, I. P. Olive andhis son, William, were in Colorado. One evening young Olive had a quarrelwith a stranger over a game of billiards and was shot dead. The next day,while the elder Olive was participating in a round-up of some cattle, he gotinto a quarrel with a man disguised as a cowboy and was instantly killedwhile trying to draw his revolver. Thus ended the last act of a drama of blood which is unequaled in theannals of crime in the great west. AND SHORT SKETCHES OF EARLY DAYS IN NEBRASKA. 63 Blajtng a ^^atfjiuay anti lE^^r^Dnal J. D. Strong. In every new undertaking in life, whether political, religious, or socialreform, or the opening up of some new and untried commercial avenue, orsettling and establishing homes in a new country, the most picturesque andinteresting character is always the pioneer—the one who blazes the J. D. STRONG. It is said that Englands people are divided into two classes—royalty,and the rest of the people. American history is made up of two classes—thepioneer and the rest of the people. The pioneer is in a class all by himself; he is the advance guard in everygreat enterprise; he is on the firing line in every contest; a stranger todefeat and upon intimate terms with victory, no matter how long the settlement of America his ax awakened the first rude echoes of thewoodmans craft in the primeval forests of the East and of the South. Hisrude bark first rode the waves of the great lakes, searched into their bays 64 PIONEEK HISTORY OF CUSTER COUNTY and inlets, and reared rude homes on their murmuring shores. His plowlirst turned the rich, black loam of the middle west, and made it yield suppliesfor the wants of many. His feet first left a white mans trail upon the arid
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