. The scout and ranger: being the personal adventures of Corporal Pike, of the Fourth Ohio cavalry. As a Texan ranger, in the Indian wars, delineating western adventure; afterwards a scout and spy, in Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, and the Carolinas, under General Mitchell, Rosecrans, Stanley, Sheridan, Lytle, Thomas, Crook, and Sherman. Fully illustrating the secret service. Twenty-five full-page engravings . r the regiment, which weighed about sixty pounds, andwith which I at once left for Camp Radziminski. The first day out I rode to the crossing of the Big Washita;and atSoldicr creek I forme
. The scout and ranger: being the personal adventures of Corporal Pike, of the Fourth Ohio cavalry. As a Texan ranger, in the Indian wars, delineating western adventure; afterwards a scout and spy, in Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, and the Carolinas, under General Mitchell, Rosecrans, Stanley, Sheridan, Lytle, Thomas, Crook, and Sherman. Fully illustrating the secret service. Twenty-five full-page engravings . r the regiment, which weighed about sixty pounds, andwith which I at once left for Camp Radziminski. The first day out I rode to the crossing of the Big Washita;and atSoldicr creek I formed a mark for an Indian to try hisbow—the arrow passing very close to my back. I had noticedfor some time the tracks of two Indians, immediately along thewagon road, but had paid little attention to the matter. Butdiscovering the presence of danger, I Avent back about a mile,and encamped for the night. On the following day I observedthat moccasin tracks were plenty at the spring where they sup-posed I would go into camp, from which it is apparent that theybelieved me verdant in border warfjire. I knew that they Avere ahead of me, and felt certain of beingwaylaid ; and had made certain that they were in a grove, hardlya mile from the river; and subsequent events evinced that I wasnot deceived. As I approached the grove, I left the path, androde through the timber some distance away; and after passing. SURROUNDED BY WOLVES. 91 entirely around the grove I again struck the road. After ridingsome distance, I turned and -went back to a good place, andsecreted myself in a thicket to wait; I had not been theremany minutes when two savages came at a swift run, on foot—one about one hundred yards ahead of the other. When theforemost one was within about sixty yards of me, I fired, theshot taking effect in his right arm and side. He instantly seizedthe wounded limb in his left hand and bounded down the trail,toward the river, and was soon lost to sight. I followed asrapidly as possible
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