The Buffalo-Hunters Establish Themselves at Adobe Walls and Erect Buildings--Origin of old Adobe Walls--A Long Circle in Search of the Best Hunting Grounds--Roaring of the Vast Herd --Business Begins in Earnest--Caught in Canadian Quicksands --News at Adobe Walls of Indian Outbreaks--Dixon Forms Hunting Partnership with Hanrahan--Location of Buildings at Adobe Walls--Fancied Security 171 CHAPTER VIII. A Thousand Indians Attack Adobe Walls at Dawn--Dixon Tries to Save His Horse--Escape of Billy Ogg--The First Mighty Warwhoop--The Battle Begins--Indians Charge to the Sound of A Bugle--Bugler Shot--Dixon's Marksmanship--Indians no Match for Hunters--Running for Supply of Ammunition--The Shadlers and Billy Tyler Killed 200 CHAPTER IX. Dixon's Fall in Rath's Store--Companions Fear He is Shot --Dead Warrior's Lance--Dismal Cawing of Pet Crow--Wounded Horses--Killing an Indian at 1200 Yards--Henry Lease Goes for Help--Old Man Bellfield and the Black Flag--Death of William Olds--Lost Relics 218 CHAPTER X. Depredations of Indians--Quanah Parker--Buffalo-Hunting Abandoned--Departure for Dodge City--Dixon Becomes a Scout Under General Miles--Back to Adobe Walls with Lieutenant Frank Baldwin--Indians Kill George Huffman in Sight of Soldiers--Terror of the Negro Cook--Pleasing Story of Dixon's Dog--Fannie and Her Pups 237 CHAPTER XI. Dixon's Most Perilous Adventure--Buffalo Wallow Fight-- Terrible Suffering of Wounded Companions--Rescues Amos Chapman--Indians Charging Upon all Sides--Saved by a Cold September Rain--The Long, Dreary Night--Death of Smith--Dixon Starts for Aid--Meets Wagon Train Escorted by Major Price--Heartless Indifference to Wounded Men--Help Comes from General Miles--The Medal of Honor Awarded 254 CHAPTER XII. Blizzard Experience--Shooting at Jack Stilwell's Ear-- Indignation and Horror of Old Army Officer--Rescue of the Germain Captives--Finding of Julia and Adelaide in Gray Beard's Deserted Camp--Pitiable Objects--Catherine and Sophia Carried to the Staked Plains--Restored by Chief Stone Calf--With Captain Nolan on the Staked Plains--No Water--Finds Double Lakes and Saves Command 281 CHAPTER XIII. Back to Civilian Life--Builds His Home at Old Adobe Walls --Plants First Alfalfa in Panhandle--The Dixon Orchard-- Appointed Postmaster--Candy and Chewing Gum for the Cowboys--Married in 1894--Serves as Justice-of-the-Peace and Sheriff--Panhandle Pioneers--Changing Conditions--Breaking up of Big Cattle Ranches--Dixon Goes Further West to Cimarron County--Would Live it All Over Again--Helped Build an Empire in the West. 301 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Page. _The Fight at Adobe Walls_ _Frontispiece_