Pioneering the West, 1846 to 1878 : Major Howard Egan's diary, also thrilling experiences of pre-frontier life among Indians, their traits, civil and savage, and part of autobiography, inter-related to his father's . ^ were passing the place of their first camp fire,one of them saw an arrow sticking in the ground close towhere their bed had first been laid down, and looking, foundtwo or three more, and no two pointed alike, proving liiatthere were three or four of the Indians that fired them fromthe ledge. One of the boys said, A happy move; a miss is as goodas a mile. An Indian generally has
Pioneering the West, 1846 to 1878 : Major Howard Egan's diary, also thrilling experiences of pre-frontier life among Indians, their traits, civil and savage, and part of autobiography, inter-related to his father's . ^ were passing the place of their first camp fire,one of them saw an arrow sticking in the ground close towhere their bed had first been laid down, and looking, foundtwo or three more, and no two pointed alike, proving liiatthere were three or four of the Indians that fired them fromthe ledge. One of the boys said, A happy move; a miss is as goodas a mile. An Indian generally has his own arrows allmarked one way and all the same. This is done by small ringsor stripes of different colors around the feathered end of thearrow, no dispute as to whose arrow killed the game, the ar-row would show Marked Arro^vs. 40. MY THREE DAYS FAST. It came about in this way. Ben Holladay, who had alarge interest in- the Overland Mail Line, was to make a quicktrip across the continent, and Father, Avho was the boss of theroad from Salt Lake to Carson City, made all preparations foiSi fast run. The time was set when Holladay should start fromNew York, and figured out by the road agents, as we calledthem, when he would arrive on their division. Father, as I suppose—as did all the other agents—sent re-lays or stage teams back east of their station, half way to thenext station, thus giving each driver a fresh team half waybetween stations, which would enable him to greatly increasehis speed. This was carried out all along the line, but ]<^atherTiad merely said in his note: Send a relav back to such apoint, and at such a time, and wait for me till I come. PIONEERING THE WEST 209 I was stationed at Butte and, on the date set, with li. Balland the four mules, went back some eighteen or twen
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