Dodge City, the cowboy capital, and the great Southwest in the days of the wild Indian, the buffalo, the cowboy, dance halls, gambling halls and bad men . e to havea trunk apiece to carry their clothing in. As the weatheris getting a little cold, we should like to have an overcoatapiece. We see you wearing overcoats, and we shouldlike to have them. Some of them, who came to Fort Dodge to state theirgrievances, wanted more than these. They wanted eventhe earth and it fenced in. Continual danger from the Indians made the pioneersof early days continually apprehensive of Indian attackand continua
Dodge City, the cowboy capital, and the great Southwest in the days of the wild Indian, the buffalo, the cowboy, dance halls, gambling halls and bad men . e to havea trunk apiece to carry their clothing in. As the weatheris getting a little cold, we should like to have an overcoatapiece. We see you wearing overcoats, and we shouldlike to have them. Some of them, who came to Fort Dodge to state theirgrievances, wanted more than these. They wanted eventhe earth and it fenced in. Continual danger from the Indians made the pioneersof early days continually apprehensive of Indian attackand continually on their guard against surprise, andkeenly watchful when any suspicious move on the partof the Indians was observed. Naturally, this caution andwatchfulness were, at times, somewhat overdone, Indianalarms sometimes proving groundless, and precautions,against seemingly threatened outbreak, proving needless,or even laughable. In the fall of 1874 I went to Texas, and when I came home I found my partner, Mr. H. L. Sitler, who was interested with me in a government hay contract, laid up with a bad flesh wound he had received in a fight with —96—. Dr. T. L. McCartyOne of the Seven Old Timers of Dodge City the Indians only the day before, and the men in campthirty miles west of Fort Dodge badly demoralized, as theIndians had jumped them a time or two very mounted a good horse, taking with me a fine rifle andtwo revolvers, and started for camp, where I arrived aboutsundown that night. I had a long talk with the boss, andI promised to stay right with them, which promise andmy cheering conversation soon placed them in goodhumor, and they declared their intention to keep on atwork. In the night there came on one of our late, cold,misty, drizzling rains. The tent was leaky and the nextmorning we all got up feeling wet and generally miser-able. The storm looked as if it had set in for the course, I did not want to remain there, but the onlycompromise, after my pro
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