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Buffalo. As we were drawing near the buffalo range preparations
were made for a chase. The pistols were freshly loaded and butcher
knives sharpened. One morning about 9 o'clock, on Turkey creek, a
branch of the Cottonwood, we came in eight of buffalo, in a great
mass, stretching out over the prairie as far as the eye could
reach, though the topography of the country enabled us to see for
several miles in each direction. The prairie in front of us was
gradually undulating, but offered no great hindrance to fast
riding. Reece and I were anxious to try our skill, and Captain
Chiles, said he would go along to assist in butchering and bringing
up the meat; but, as he was riding a mule, he could not be expected
to take an active part in the chase. Reece was mounted on his
splendid iron gray and I on my trained buffalo horse, each of us
having a pair of Coifs navy revolvers, of six chambers in holsters.
We rode slowly until we got within three or four hundred yards of
the edge of the vast herd. Then they began to run and we followed,
gaining on them all the time. Pressing forward, at the full speed
of my horse, I discovered that the whole band just in front of me
were old bulls, I was so anxious to kill a buffalo that I began
shooting at a very large one, occasionally knocking tufts of hair
off his coat, but apparently having little other effect.
However,after a lively run of perhaps a mile or two he slackened
his pace, and at last stopped still and, turning about, faced me. I
fired the one or two remaining charges of my revolvers, at a
distance of twenty or thirty yards, and thought he gave evidence of
being mortally wounded. After gazing steadily at me for a few
minutes he turned around and walked off. I followed, but presently
he resumed a gallop in the direction the main...
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