The Warrior's Last Ride.—Muffled Feet.—Bit off More Than We Could Chew.—The Cunning Warriors Tricked Us.—We Carried Water in My Boots.—Captain Lee Captures Their Camp.—How Lumpkins was Killed.—The Sewall Gun Hoodooed the Comanches.—The Blood-curdling Yell, and We were Afoot.—They Sure Waked Us Up.—Gathering the Clams. CHAPTER X, 246 The Staked Plains Horror.—A Forlorn Hope.—The Fate of the Benders.—Captain Nolan and His Troopers.—Quana Parker.—Rees, the Hero of the Hour. CHAPTER XI, 274 Water at Last.—"Yes, Sah"—"Take Him, Sah."—Drinking Horse-blood—They Had Given Up to Die.—Rees Said, "Find Carr."—He was Lying in the Shade of His Horse.—It was Rees and the Three Men.—We Ignited Soap-Balls.—Twenty Years in Prison.—We are All Here.—We Gather up some Horses.—Last Great Slaughter of the Buffalo.—Our Kangaroo Court, Always in Session.—Judge ("Wild Bill") Kress on the Bench. CHAPTER XII, 297 SOL REES.—Dull Knife Raid, 1878.—His Night Ride from Kirwin to the Prairie Dog.—Elected Captain of the Settlers.—Single-handed Combat with a Warrior on the Sappa.—Meeting Major Mock and U. S. Soldiers.—Sworn in as Guide and Scout.—On a Hot Trail.—The Four Butchered Settlers on the Beaver.—Finds Lacerated, Nude Girl.—On the Trail.—Finds Annie Pangle's Wedding Dress.—Overtook Played-out Warrior.—Hurry to Ogalalla.—Lost the Trail.—Goes to New Mexico.—Meets Kit Carson's Widow.—Down with Mountain Fever.—Living at Home in Quiet. CHAPTER XIII, 315 MORTIMER N. KRESS ("Wild Bill").—His Heroic Example at the Battle of Casa Amarilla.—His Unselfish Generosity.—His Sublime Fortitude in the Hour-of Distress.—He Stood as a Buffer between Savagery and Civilization.—He is Geography Itself. CHAPTER XIV, 324 M. V. DAILY. * * * * * MISCELLANEOUS STORIES OF BUFFALO LAND. STAMPEDE OF THE WHEEL-OXEN, 329 FAVORITE HUNTING-GROUNDS, 339 THE UNSEEN TRAGEDY, 344 BELLFIELD AND THE DRIED APPLES, 346 AN INCIDENT OF BEN JACKSON'S EXPERIENCE, 348 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. JOHN R. COOK, _Frontispiece_ Page. THE OLDEST INHABITANT, 57 COOK SERENADED BY WOLVES, 71 NIGGER HORSE AND HIS HORSE, 181 COMANCHE MEDICINE MAN, 192