COL. W. F. CODY ("Buffalo Bill") of Nebraska. COL. JOHN B. COLTON, Kansas City, Mo. MR. V. DEVINNY, Denver, Colo. MR. E. L. GALLATIN, Denver, Colo. JUDGE SIMONDS, Denver, Colo. MR. JOHN T. RENNICK, Oak Grove, Mo. MR. GEO. W. BRYANT, Kansas City, Mo. MR. GEORGE E. SIMPSON, Kansas City, Mo. MR. JOHN MARTIN, Denver, Colo. MR. DAVID STREET, Denver, Colo. MRS. NELLIE CARLISLE, Berkeley, Cal. MR. A. CARLISLE, Berkeley, Cal. MR. GREEN MAJORS, San Francisco, Cal. MR. ERGO ALEX. MAJORS, Alameda, Cal. MR. SETH E. WARD, Westport, Mo. ROBERT FORD, Great Falls, Mont. DOCTOR CASE, Kansas City, Mo. BENJ. C. MAJORS, May Bell P. O., Colo. PROF. ROBERT CASEY, Denver, Colo. JOHN BURROUGHS, Colorado. EUGENE MUNN, Swift, Neb. REV. DR. JOHN R. SHANNON, Denver, Colo. THOS. D. TRUETT, Leadville, Colo. WILL C. FERRIL. Yours with respect, ALEXANDER MAJORS. Seventy Years on the Frontier. CHAPTER I. REMINISCENCES OF YOUTH. My father, Benjamin Majors, was a farmer, born in the State of North Carolina in 1794, and brought when a boy by my grandfather, Alexander Majors, after whom I am named, to Kentucky about the year 1800. My grandfather was also a farmer, and one might say a manufacturer, for in those days nearly all the farmers in America were manufacturers, producing almost everything within their homes or with their own hands, tanning their own leather, making the shoes they wore, as well as clothing of all kinds. My mother's maiden name was Laurania Kelly; her father, Beil Kelly, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and was wounded at the battle of Brandywine. I was born in 1814, on the 4th day of October, near Franklin, Simpson County, Kentucky, being the eldest of the family, consisting of two boys and a girl. When I was about five years of age my father moved to Missouri, when that State was yet a Territory. I remember well many of the occurrences of the trip; one was that the horses ran away with the wagon in which my father, myself, and younger brothers were riding. My father threw us children out and jumped out himself, though crippled in one foot at the time. One wheel of the wagon was broken to pieces, which caused us a delay of two days.