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the romance, the poetry, and the history of their each distinctive work forever. The same spirit and circumstances have furnished journalists innumerable, who in the West imbibed the sterling qualities they afterward used to such effect. Notably Henry M. Stanley, who (in 1866) saw the rising sun of the young empire that stretches to the Rockies; Gen. Greenly, of Artic fame (now of Signal Service), and the equally scientific explorer, Lieut. Schwarks, passed their early career in the same school, and often followed "the trial" led by "BUFFALO BILL"; Finnerty (of the "Chicago Times"); "Modoe" Fox and O'Kelly (of the "New York Herald"), 1876; while later on new blood among the scribblers was initiated to their baptism of fire by Harries (of "Washington Star"), McDonough ("New York World"), Bailey (of "Inter-Ocean"), brave young Kelly (of the Lincoln Journal"), Cressy (of the "Omaha Bee"), Seymour ("Chicago Herald"), and Allen (of the "New York Herald"), present in the battle, who were honored by three cheers from "Old White Top" Forsythe's gallant Seventh Cavalry, the day after the battle of "Wounded Knee," as they went charging over Wolf Creek to what came near being a crimson day, to the fight "down at the Mission."

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HIS MILITARY RANK AND REFERENCES.

GENERAL CODY holds his commission in the NATIONAL GUARD of the United States (State of Nebraska), an honorable position, and as high as he can possibly attain. His connection with the Regular United States Army has covered a continuous period of fifteen years, and desultory connection of thirty years, in the most troublous era of Western history, as Guide, Scout and Chief of Scouts- a position unknown in any other service, and for the confidential nature of which see General