The Ranche On the Oxhide a Story of Boys And Girls Life On the Frontier
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It was but a little more than two miles to camp, and they did not have to wait more than an hour for a wagon to arrive, as the driver had been told by the Colonel to start the moment the sharp double report of the rifles reached his ears. The dead animals were soon loaded into it, and the proud hunters walked leisurely alongside of it, back to camp, arriving there before eleven o'clock. The deer were skinned by Joe. The meat was cut up into saddles and haunches, and hung on the limb of a great ...tree, to secure it from the prowling wolves, who already scented blood and began to make their appearance on the bluffs, so keen is the nose of that vicious and cowardly brute. The Colonel had brought with him from the fort, half a dozen hounds, among them some of General Custer's celebrated animals, but they Il6 THE RANCHE ON THE OXHIDE were left tied up in camp that morning, as the Colonel had decided to make a still hunt the first day, and to chase with the dogs the next. That evening, just as all were about to roll themselves up in their blankets, a scout arrived from Fort Marker with the intelligence that the Cheyennes and the Kiowas, under the leadership of the bloodthirsty Sa-tan-ta, the notorious war- chief, had made a raid upon the settlements near Council Grove, and Custer was leaving at once for the field with his regiment.
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