Show Frontier Fighters Reminiscences es of Expert Feats of Arms Performed by Buffalo Bill Comstock and Wild Bill I I Two of ot the tha most noted scouts that the West ever had were Buffalo Bill Billand Billand Billand and Wild Bill O. O P. P Wiggins the veteran veteran veteran vet vet- eran scout and trapper entertained both men at Monument Stage station In the days and has many many thrilling ng stories to tell of them Wild Bill was ready at any time for for a daring deed He was six feet teet four inches In height with with broad shoulders and weighed pounds He carried dispatches between Forts Felts Hays and Wallace Wallace in Kansas ansas and some of his most daring feats were performed Inthe in inthe inthe and later Inthe in inthe inthe the Kansas Kanas soil free war the Civil war One of these was the spiking of the guns of Fort Pillow The fort prevented prevented prevented pre pre- vented the Federal ships from passing on the Missouri river Wild Bill undertook undertook un un- tin tin- to go into the fort alone and spike pike the guns The river was lighted in front of the fort for the distance of af half a mile Wild Bill was taken to this limit of light In a boat by friends and dropped Into the river without any clothes on He had a string of rattail rat- rat tall tail files flies around his neck with which to spike the guns He swam half a a. mile and came out below the fort Floods of rain drenched everything and made the darkness in intense in- in tense Wild Bill arrived at the fort fortas as the guard was being changed He noted the beat of the sentry and when the back of af the guard was turned crept up on him and strangled him to death Then the scout put a pole up against the fort wall vail and climbed up taking the pole Inside with him Once Inside Wild Bill went to each gun and thrust the tail rat flies files down Into the priming hole He pounded them deep and broke them off below the surface No amount of drilling co could ld remove the file without making the gun worthless Wild Bill was spiking the last gun when he discovered He escaped over the wall and dodged his enemies in th the darkness He lie swam swain the river and was not captured The bo boats ts were notified and Immediately came down the river past the helpless fort from which not a gun could be fired The tightest place Wild Bill ever got Into was when eight pro slavery men visited the cabin where he was staying on the Big Blue near Manhattan r. r Kan iCan to kill him He was awn wn at the spring sprin when they c came me but he dashed up up to the house shot two of them dead from behind the corner of the chouse ouse and then got Into the house Th Thy They y came to the door and he shot four more mare and his pistol was empty The two remaining sprang sprung sprang upon him and were bearing him down when he killed them with a stab each from 1 Ike knife Thus he killed eight men in ina a a. single-handed single encounter encounter encounter en en- counter when they were armed and seeking to kill him He was finally shot In the back by byan byan byan an Irishman in Deadwood with whom he had been having some difficulty ina Ina in a saloon Buffalo Bill was Just as daring as Wild Bill and was was much more of a a. a hunter and Indian fighter than Wild Bill Buffalo Bills Bill's real name name wa was wal William WilHam Comstock Jr William Comstock Comstock Com Corn stock Sr was a H Hudson bay trapper and came to Colorado in ih the thirties and married a Cheyenne squaw Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo falo Bill was was the son of this marriage The boy grew up to be an unerring shot and a notable hunter He earned his name killing buffalo for the forts i He held the record of af all the frontier having killed four eighty-four buffalo in one day and forty of these at a single stand He wore his hair long and sometimes braided it hung silver pieces in it one for each Indian he had killed as the Indians did The custom was to take a silver dollar and hammer it H large Into a shape cup and fasten it I to the braid near the top As the braid got smaller toward the bott bottom botka Il half dollars and quarters quarter were for the dollar at the top Buffalo Bills Bill's most daring adventure is the one which ended in his death It occurred in 1867 At that time Blac Blank Kettle chief of the had had captured two white women a German t woman and a Miss 1 Taylor The I moved rapidly to the N ort west after making the captures held the women for ransom Miss Taylor had simply been Visiting in inthe the West and her Eastern relative were so co much alarmed by her l that they quickly offered 1500 for fot her Iter release or rescue Buffalo BiU Bill d to rescue her He lIe started out with a young man named McGinnis whom he was wasing teach Ing scouting and hunting They followed fol fol- lowed the trail of the Indians and over took them one night The Indians we wea wea a long way from the scene of the capture and did not fair pursuit Iii TIleY were therefore not guarding as care careY T fully as they would have been otherl wise 1 Buffalo Bill left Ien his companion out outi 4 of miles mITes from camp and walked in himself dressed as an Indian HD He mingled with wih the Indian scouts and he talked the was never sus S susA He found out from them that th- th Miss Taylor and the German woman were in Iii the tent of the medicine man mn next to the tent of Chief Black Kettle Kette Buffalo Bill went on into camp that ti night after the Indians had rad gone to tot sleep arid amid ard skulked around to tt where the women were Is n the centre of the camp He found tb guarded by six savages H crept between them and got close cose to it t Miss Taylor Then he spoke to her he l J fa low tones telling here sot not to be alarmed t that that he was going to tb rescue her in ia i a short time She was so much overjoyed and agi agitated ao tat that she spoke In loud tone tenet tone asking him why he could not take ha he away immediately Buffalo Buflo Bill Bi hal hai not more than got got her cautioned to in keep quiet before one of the guard gar awoke and ard half hal raised up The seer waited until everybody was wa aslee ale again and then resumed his conerS' conerS with Miss tion Taylor I She had ha become leal and called out Save me saime sat sai sl me The Indians were aroused In ia ini arouse moment and seeing that there e wen we seven instead of six among the guar ga immediately captured Buffalo Bl Bli BI picking him out as the extra man h cause he was so much better dressel dres than any of them their clothing havi hark havins become worn by rou rough h traveling In the raid inid just made made The whole camp of Indians was aroused and the prisoner was wa carried crrie before Black Kettle Kette the mob demandIng demanding demand demand- Ing his hs torture and death To the SUP sirS prise of everybody Chief Black KettIe Kettie Ket Kettie tie held out ut his hand and th the scout as my friend It I was then explained that a few months before Black Kettle Kette had b been bee captured by the soldiers and Bufa Buffalo Buffal Bill Bi had ha the chance to do him a a favor The scout told the soldiers that Black Kettle was a lazy lay and unimportant In Indian Indian dian dlan who didn't amount to anything The soldiers then released him ja o U. U knowing that they had held a chief captive Black Ke Kettle tle announced also that he would repay repa repy the service Buffalo Bill Bi had done hi hiThe him bin The chief chie ordered his best horse a and saddle brought out and made a preset prese of them to the scout scout Then he ordered order his son and two of the leading warriors warior to accompany the scout out of t tir th camp as a guard gard and said no one mudo mu mus must do him any harm The chief bade t th scout farewell and told him to go gobac back bak to his home Buffalo Bufalo Bill Bi and the three India Indian left lef the camp and an when they got na where McGinnis McGinis was lying in the graS grai gra Buffalo Bufalo Bill Bi announced that his frien friend need ned not accompany him any further as he le could find his way alone Th They Th dismounted laughed and talked t tO tOgether to r gether and shook hands all al round In Inthe Inthe the most friendly fashion They The I Indians In mounted again and separated the turning back to camp and Bu Bufalo But falo Bill Bi cantering a few yards towar toward home r The scout had gone but a few pad pace paces when all al three sav savages turned sui suddenly sud denly and fired upon him They shi shut him In the back and h he hE fell fel dead TS Tb 11 pony which the chief had given W lm 8 made some wild wid plunges and gallop galloped galope back to camp making a circuit an air arriving there before the three Indian I did When it i galloped Into camp olP ther Iwas I d was a great time The chief said sad that tha tat his son had killed his best bet friend ani ad ordered that when the three return they should be put under guard gard until morning Black Kettle at first decide c to kill ki all al three of o them the but though better of It i and reduced them to th l b. b rank of squaws not permitting then them to carry crry a weapon of any kind ye Yes Tear a r afterward when Custer wiped out tn the band these three thre Indians were sill stU squaws C C McGinnis got the soldiers and andin W Win an in pursuit of the Indians that ha bud L pursuit o intended to 10 t killed hilled Buffalo Bufalo Bi Bill They bury his body also but found but unrecognizable bones the co ote al r having eaten the flesh Th The India India- India were pursued pursed and defeated In fn a a Targe number being killed tM fight began the German woman een rD J screaming She was was was' shot to dea deat several bullets striking her Miss Taylor Tay TY TYlor 6 lor br had ha judgment enough to t He lie le ao dO dOin dol dolIn in a gully and was unharmed t was a sent back hack to her friends by t soldiers Denver Denver Times t t tt |