Prentiss Ingraham

Buffalo Bill Among the Sioux Prentiss Ingraham

One summer morning, in the sixties, when the Indians in the West and Southwest were still giving much trouble to Uncle Sam's settlers and soldiers, and when the great railway lines were being pushed forward across the continent to the Pacific coast, a scout rode across country in Kansas from Fort Larned to another military post, about sixty miles distant. He was carrying the military mail and dispatches from one fort to another, and his mission was an exceedingly dangerous one, for it was known that the Indians in Kansas and the neighboring territory were on the point of rising to attack the whites, if they had not already risen.