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Edwin L. Sabin. Buffalo Bill and the Overland Trail
Buffalo Bill and the Overland Trail
Table of Contents
FOREWORD
ILLUSTRATIONS
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
I. TALL BULL SIGNALS: “ENEMIES!”
II. THE HERO OF THE MULE FORT
III. WITH THE WAGON TRAIN
IV. VISITING BILLY CODY
V. DAVY GOES ON HERD
VI. DAVY HAS AN ADVENTURE
VII. DAVY CHANGES JOBS
VIII. THE GOLD FEVER
IX. THE HEE-HAW EXPRESS
X “PIKE’S PEAK OR BUST!”
XI. SOME HALTS BY THE WAY
XII. PERILS FOR THE HEE-HAWS
XIII. THE CHERRY CREEK DIGGIN’S
XIV. DAVY SIGNS AS “EXTRA”
XV. FREIGHTING ACROSS THE PLAINS
XVI. YANK RAISES TROUBLE
XVII. DAVY “THE BULL WHACKER”
XVIII. BILLY CODY TURNS UP AGAIN
XIX. DAVY MAKES ANOTHER CHANGE
XX. FAST TIME TO CALIFORNIA
XXI “PONY EXPRESS BILL”
XXII. CARRYING THE GREAT NEWS
XXIII. A BRUSH ON THE OVERLAND STAGE
XXIV. BUFFALO BILL IS CHAMPION
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Edwin L. Sabin
Published by Good Press, 2021
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“Are you all old women?” scolded Chief Cut Nose, while Dave tried to guess at what was being shouted, and his two guardians pressed to the edge of the circle. “You let three whites, one of whom is very little, beat us? The dogs will bark at us when we go back and the squaws will whip us through the village. Everybody at home will laugh. They will say: ‘These are not Cheyennes. They are sick Osages! They are afraid to take a scalp, and when an enemy points a stick at them, they run!’ Bah! Am I a chief, and are you warriors, or are we all ghosts?”
Panting, the warriors listened. They murmured and shrugged, as the words stung.
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