Buffalo Bill King of Scouts Author:Richard Hamilton Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER VI. BUFFALO BILL'S DUEL WITH THE INDIAN. One day while Buffalo B'ill was hunting for the camp he suddenly ran into a band of about fifty Indians no... more »t half a mile distant. The Indians were in hot pursuit of a white man, and were gaining on him fast. Realizing the impossibility of coping with such overwhelming numbers, Buffalo Bill's first impulse was to turn and fly towards the camp; but, seeing the dire extremity of the white man, bending every effort to escape from the howling band of his savage pursuers, he could not make up his mind to abandon him to the merciless vengeance of the bloodthirsty 'demons. With a shriek that was indicative of revenge, he held his trophy aloft. Page 45. The pursued plainsman was coming in the direction of Buffalo Bill, but the unsteady gait of his horse showed that he was weakening from over- exertion. Bill encouraged the man by his shouts and held his trusty rifle ready to shoot when the Indians came within certain range. A false step, however, by the exhausted horse caused him to fall, the rider pitching headlong over. the animal's head. Rising cjuickly, the man made a faint effort to continue his flight on foot, when a bullet from the rifle of one of his pursuers brought him to the ground. In another instant a stalwart savage was bending over the fallen man tearing off his scalp, and in the next moment, rising with a shriek that was indicative of revenge, he held his trophy aloft. Sitting on his horse, rigid and stately as a bronze statue, Buffalo Bill opened fire on'the savage band with telling effect until he had emptied his Winchester. Realizing now that the only chance he had for life was to make a run for it, he immediately wheeled and started back to the railroad, reloading his rifle as he ran. The...« less