The Morrills and reminiscences . nstruction of the Kansas Pacific railroad was inprogress, the contractors found it very difficult toobtain a supply of fresh meat for their different campsstrung along the route for many miles. Buffalo wereplenty in those days. I agreed to supply buffalo meatto all contractors, and after much parleying and doubton their part as to my ability to supply it in sufficientquantities, I at last succeeded in closing a employed a gang of rough riders, who were familiarwith buffalo hunting, and we had no trouble in supply-ing all the meat the different camps
The Morrills and reminiscences . nstruction of the Kansas Pacific railroad was inprogress, the contractors found it very difficult toobtain a supply of fresh meat for their different campsstrung along the route for many miles. Buffalo wereplenty in those days. I agreed to supply buffalo meatto all contractors, and after much parleying and doubton their part as to my ability to supply it in sufficientquantities, I at last succeeded in closing a employed a gang of rough riders, who were familiarwith buffalo hunting, and we had no trouble in supply-ing all the meat the different camps could consume. Itwas while in this work that I was dubbed BuffaloBill. After the completion of the Kansas Pacific I re-turned to the freighting business, and later beganranching near the city of North Platte, Nebraska. Itwas about this time I had an idea that I could suc-cessfully organize and run a show. My plan was todepict life on the frontier to eastern people, and toillustrate some of the dangers and sacrifices made by [94]. Mr. Arthur Currier Morrill, Mrs. Margaret Marie Demutt Morrill, and Their Children, Julia Minnie Morrill, andArthur De Lashmutt Morrill, Stromsburg, Nebraska. Photo-graphed 1916. THE MORRILLS AND REMINISCENCES the early pioneers of the West. My first show was puton at Omaha. It was as successful as small showsgenerally were at that time, but was not a financialsuccess. As time went on, the Indians became more daringand raids became more and more frequent. I wasoften called upon by settlers and by United Statesarmy officials to assist as a scout in tracking andpunishing the Indians concerned in the Civil War broke out I enlisted in a Nebraskaregiment. After my discharge from the army I waselected a member of the Nebraska State the Indian war that resulted in the Custermassacre, I was chief of scouts under General NelsonMiles. I assisted in the capture of Sitting Bull, andin bringing at least twenty thousand Indians,
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