One pretty morning John and myself started with the load, and left _Dave_ and _Charles_ in camp. We stopped at Bear Creek for the night; and directly after striking camp we had our attention attracted to a singular-looking object upon the side of the bluff away down the creek. We took out the glass, and it looked like a roll of buffalo-hides. After supper we picketed the horses, and taking our rifles, we strolled down the creek to investigate the curious object. Coming up to it we found it to be a buffalo-hide rolled up; and peeping in at one end we saw a man. The hide was taken from an old bull, and was almost an _inch thick_; and being frozen, it was as much as we could do to cut him from his narrow prison-walls. He was a _middle-aged_ man, and was almost exhausted; but we took him to the fire and gave him to eat, and then heard his story. He said he was a cow-man from _Texas_, and had been to Granada and was returning when he was ingulfed in a furious blizzard a few miles north of Bear Creek. He said he had but two blankets, and having no _matches_, he knew he must perish; and happening to see a stray _bull_ among the hills, he rode on to him and shot him, and concluded to take the hide to _wrap_ himself in. His horse broke loose while he was skinning the bull, and he was left alone; so, spreading the hide upon the ground, fur side down, he spread the two blankets upon it, and then lay himself upon them and rolled up tightly. The green hide _froze_, and he was as securely incased as though he were within a steel boiler. He had been there _five days_; and being behind the bluff the sun had not reached and softened the hide. He said he had kept _comfortable_, with the exception of his _feet_, and with them he had suffered a great deal. Upon investigation, they were both found to be _frozen_; and we took him to Las Animas to the _doctor_, who amputated them both at the instep. He often said that a man without toes was better than _no man_, that he surely would have perished had he not captured the buffalo, and that, if we had not found him, a few days later the hide would have been his grave. We found ready sale for our meat, and were soon steering again for the Cimaron. We came across _several_ outfits, each of which had been more or less frozen in the late blizzard. Some had lost fingers, and others toes; and we heard of one _whole outfit of three men_, north of the Arkansas, freezing to death. _We_ were not in the _least_ injured, and we congratulated ourselves upon our being prepared with a _good bed_.