Custer's Last Shot; or, The Boy Trailer of the Little HornTravers, J. M., Col.
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Custer's Last Shot; or, The Boy Trailer of the Little Horn
Travers, J. M., Col.
Custer, George A. (George Armstrong), 1839-1876 -- Fiction; Dime novels; Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876 -- Fiction
Madame Pierrepont fulfilled all her promises to Bolly, and still thinks
that everything she owns would be inadequate to recompense him for
saving her dear son and adopted daughter.
I have grave suspicions (aroused by some of young Mason's warm
_brotherly_ actions) that the time is not far distant when his wealthy
mother will receive pretty Adele as her own daughter, but perhaps they
are too young as yet for more than surmises on my part.
Pandy Ellis and his partner started for the field of action again,
and by the time this reaches the reader's eye, they will doubtless be
at the side of impetuous Major Burt or some other of Cooke's gallant
officers.
On their way we lose sight of these princes of the prairies, but let us
hope it will not be forever.
Alas! poor Custer!
His memory will ever be green in the memory of his fellow-soldiers.
The whole country mourns his loss, and well they may, for a more
dashing, chivalrous, valiant cavalry chief never led his men to battle,
and though willful at times, his other qualities completely hid this
fault.
Who among us can stand forth, and pointing to himself, say, "Look at
me, and take a lesson. I am faultless?" Not one, I am sure.
And with Custer fell the flower of the army; noble men whose names
shall ever be cherished by all lovers of the good and brave.
That Pandy Ellis was their first real avenger the reader already knows.
Whether retribution shall overtake Sitting Bull and his warriors, or
not, time alone will tell.
As to the movements of the troops under Terry, also those under Cooke,
the reader can glean fresher news from the daily papers than I can give.
At present it seems that the Northwest will be the scene of a bloody
Indian war which can only terminate with the extermination of the
warriors engaged.
As to Pedro Sanchez, he has recovered from the wounds received at the
hands of his former companion, Red Goliath, but trembles whenever left
alone, for he has in some way heard of the terrible oath sworn by Pandy
Ellis to have his life; and if there is one man in the world whom the
French Spaniard fears it is the veteran trapper chief.
From the limited papers at my command I have drawn this tale out of the
terrible death-ride still so fresh in the public mind, and now that
Custer has gone to join his brave fellow-officers in the spirit world,
I hope all his faults, such as they were, may be overlooked, and due
reverence shown for the name of our missing hero.
[THE END.]
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