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"BUFFALO BILL" AND "BUFFALO CHIPS." - From Page 111.

In all these years of campaigning, the Fifth Cavalry has had varied and interesting experience with a class of men of whom much has been written, and whose names, to readers of the dime novel and the New York Weekly style of literature, were familiar as household words; I mean the "Scouts of the Prairie," as they have been christened. Many thousand of our citizens have been to see "BUFFALO BILL'S" thrilling representations of the scenes of his life of adventure. To such he needs no introduction, and throughout our cavalry he is better known than any general except Miles or Crook.

A motley set they are as a class - these scouts ; hard riding, hard swearing, hard drinking ordinarily, and not all were or unimpeachable veracity. But there was never a word of doubt or question in teh Fifth when "BUFFALO BILL" came up for discussion. He was Chief of Scouts in Kansas and Nebraska in the campaign of 1868-69, when the hostiles were so completely used up by General Carr. He remained with us as chief scout until the regiment was ordered to Arizonia to take its turn at the Apaches in 1871. Five years the regiment was kept among the rocks and deserts of that marvelous land of cactus and centipede; but when we cam ehomeward across the continent and were ordered up to Cheyenne to take a hand in the Sioux ear of 1876, the "Sitting Bull" campaign, the first addition to our ranks was "Buffalo Bill" himself - who sprang from the Union Pacific train at Cheyenne, and was speedily exchanging greetings with an eager group of his old comrades - reinstated as Chief of Scouts.

Of his services durng the campaign that followed, a dozen articles might be written. One of the most thrilling incidents of our fight on the 17th of July with the Cheyenne Indians, on the War Bonnet, was when he killed the warrior "Yellow Hand," in as plucky a single combat on both sides as is ever witnessed. The Fifth had a genuine affection for Bill; he was a tried and true comrade - one who for cool daring and judgment had no superior. He was a beautiful horseman, an unrivaled shot, and as a scout unequaled. We had tried them all - Hualpais and Tontos in Arizonia ; half-breeds on the great plains. We had followed Custer's old guide, "CALIFORNIA JOE," in Dakota, met handsome Bill Hickox ("WILD BILL") in the Black Hills; trailed for weeks after Crook's favorite, FRANK GUARD, with "LITTLE BAT" and "BIG BAPTISTE," three good ones, all over the Big Horn and Powder River country; hunted Nez Perces with COSGROVE and his Shoshones among the Yellowstone mountains, and listened to CRAWFORD'S yarns and rhymes in many a bivouac in the Northwest. They were all noted men in their way, but BILL CODY was the paragon.

This time it is not my purpose to write of him, but for him, of another whom I have not yet named.

James White was his name; a man little known east of the Missiouri, but on the plains he was BUFFALO BILL's shadow. I had met him for the first time at the McPherson station in the Platte Valley, 1871, when he came to me with a horse, and the simple introduction that he was a friend of CODY'S. Long afterward we found how true and staunch a friend, for when Cody joined us at Cheyenne as chief scout, he brought White with him as assistant, and Bill's recommendation secured his immediate employment.

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"ROCKY BEAR."
Ogallalla Sioux, War Chief of the Sioux Nation,
Fighting Chief of the Ghost Dancers.