. The border and the buffalo, an untold story of the southwest plains; the bloody border of Missouri and Kansas. The story of the slaughter of the buffalo. Westward among the big game and wild tribes. A story of mountain and plain . STORY OF THE SOUTHWEST PLAINS. 183 far west. The fact developed afterward that the nearesthunters camp was twelve miles from them. This wasBilly Devinss, northeast of them. Five miles northeastof Devinss was the ill-fated Marshall Sewalls camp. In the latter part of February these Indians beganmurdering and pillaging in earnest. But a few days be-fore the first hun
. The border and the buffalo, an untold story of the southwest plains; the bloody border of Missouri and Kansas. The story of the slaughter of the buffalo. Westward among the big game and wild tribes. A story of mountain and plain . STORY OF THE SOUTHWEST PLAINS. 183 far west. The fact developed afterward that the nearesthunters camp was twelve miles from them. This wasBilly Devinss, northeast of them. Five miles northeastof Devinss was the ill-fated Marshall Sewalls camp. In the latter part of February these Indians beganmurdering and pillaging in earnest. But a few days be-fore the first hunters were disturbed, they had evidentlyscouted the country well, for there were single Indiansseen in different places far apart at the same time. A few days after Nigger Horse and his band had passedby our camp, Rankin Moore came along with his outfitand told us he had not seen a buffalo since he had leftFort Elliott. We had not seen one for the last two we agreed to pull south for the Brazos country. Wecrossed the Red river at the same place the Indians did,and followed their trail for ten miles, when it turned offmore to the southwest; but we went on south. Moorehad agreed to go to a certain place on the Salt Fork
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