. Buffalo land: an authentic account of the discoveries, adventures, and mishaps of a scientific and sporting party in the wild West; with graphic descriptions of the country; the red man, savage and civilized; hunting the buffalo, antelope, elk, and wild turkey; etc., etc. ... The appendix comprising a complete guide for sportsmen and emigrants. in which restedhis geological spade. It is extremely problematicalwdiether any of these red men will go out of the val-•.ey alive. And thus another wonderful change had come overthe spirit of our dream. From being a scientific andsporting expedition,
. Buffalo land: an authentic account of the discoveries, adventures, and mishaps of a scientific and sporting party in the wild West; with graphic descriptions of the country; the red man, savage and civilized; hunting the buffalo, antelope, elk, and wild turkey; etc., etc. ... The appendix comprising a complete guide for sportsmen and emigrants. in which restedhis geological spade. It is extremely problematicalwdiether any of these red men will go out of the val-•.ey alive. And thus another wonderful change had come overthe spirit of our dream. From being a scientific andsporting expedition, we had been suddenly meta-morphosed into a gang of sextons, who, in a valleyamong the buffaloes, were witnessing an Indian bat-tle, and waiting to bury the slain. As the Pawnees came down at full gallop, theCheyennes lashed up their ponies to meet came the crack of pistols, and a perfect stormof arrows passed and crossed each other in the combatants met, we could see them pokinglances at each others ribs for an instant, and theneach side retreated to its starting point. Charge firstwas ended. We gazed over the battle-field to countthe dead, but to our surprise none appeared. A few minutes were spent by both parties in a -/iflllll*MMfllil]lll|l|ll);)!]i|J^ , Il^Hi ISlr Iiiii A > d z w. o C ^ 0 « 4. THE FEAY IN PROGRESS. 273 general overhauling of their equipments, and thenanother charge was made. They rode across eachothers fronts and around in circles, firing theirarrows and yelling like demons, and occasionally,when two combatants accidentally got close together,prodding away with lances. The oddest part of thewhole terrible tragedy to us was that the chargeslooked, when closely approaching each other, as ifthey were being made by two riderless bands of wildponies. The Indians would lie along that side of theirhorses which was turned away from the enemy, andfire their pistols and shoot their arrows from underthe animals necks, thus leaving exposed in
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