. 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 . with Mr. Hunter several weeks, when having accu-mulated all the peltries my horse could carry, I started on myreturn to the settlements, after giving the family with which Ihad lived so pl
. 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 . with Mr. Hunter several weeks, when having accu-mulated all the peltries my horse could carry, I started on myreturn to the settlements, after giving the family with which Ihad lived so pleasantly an affectionate good bye. I had beenso kindly treated that I was loth to leave, and his wife urged menow that as I had killed their winters meat, I ought to remainand help eat it; but I could not entirely make up my mind to doso, and we parted. On the way back to Waco I witnessed a very singular reaching the edge of the settlements, I encamped one nightbeneath a very large live oak tree, and in the morning, just as Iwas getting ready to start, I espied a very large pack of wolveschasing a young heifer across the prairie. There must havebeen nearly a hundred of these animals in the pack, and when Idiscovered them she was getting extremely wearied, and, indeed,nearly exhausted. Near by was a herd of about one hundredand fifty cattle, of all sizes, beside young calves, and for these. FIRING AT THE AVOLVES. 153 the heifer made direct for the herd, bellowing at every jump. Nosooner did the herd discover her distress than the old cattle com-menced snorting, and soon ran together in a huddle, with theirheads outward, and making a complete circle, enclosing the calves. The heifer at length reached the flock, and after runningtwice around the circle found a position in it, when she at onceassumed a defiant attitude. The wolves followed her tillshe reached a place of security; and so many w^ere thereof them that they became scattered into a complete circle,entirely en
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