Drift from Two Shores
a band of wild and untamable savages, known as the "Pigeon Feet," had resisted the blankets and Bibles of civilization. For years the trails leading
ernal government for their welfare, lying on the ground a few miles from their encampment, with the request that they were not to be used until the military had
asters taken into captivity, and never again heard from. A palace car on the Union Pacific Railway, containing an excursion party of teachers en route to San Francisco, was surrounded, its inmates captured, and-their vacancies in the school catalogue never again filled. Even a Board of Educational Examiners, proceeding to Cheyenne, were taken prisoners, and obliged to answer questions they themselves had proposed, amidst horrible tortures. By
n moths, cooking the toothsome buffalo hump, frying the fragrant bear's meat, and stewing the esculent bean for the braves. For a few fav
hief was sufficient to show the truth of the wild rumors respecting his youth. He was scarcely twelve, of proud and lofty bearing, and clad completely in wrappings of various-colored scalloped cloths, which gave him the appearance of a somewhat extra-sized pen-wiper. An
s of geology in the Yale exploring party satisfy his warrior's heart yesterday? Has he forgotten that Hayden and Clarence King are still to follow? Shall his own
e from the ground he adjusted its sight. Exactly seven miles away on the slope of the mountain the figur
scalp and search the bod
e face?" eagerly
insuranc
ttled on the fa
it was a bo
t sore against the book-p
States mails no longer bring me my 'Young America,' or my 'Boys' and Girls' Weekly.' I find it impossible, even with my fastest scouts, to keep up with the re
itation a single moment.
l have his dime novel. He shall know what k
oled lightly as the fa
hree small flaxen scalps, in the other "The Boy M
end of an emigrant wagon. I crept up to them softly. Their parents a
y on her prostrate form; "and these are the peo