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occasion a Mr. Liebman, of Chicago, was killed, and his companion shot through the
shoulder.
After this stormy period it was fitted up as a treasure coach, and naturally became an
object of renewed interest to the robbers; but owing to the strong force of what are known as
"shotgun messengers," who accompanied the coach, it was a long time before the bandits
succeeded in accomplishing their purpose. Among the most prominent of these messengers
were Scott Davis, a spledid scout, and one of the self-appointed undertakers of many of the
lawless characters of the neighborhood; Boone May, one of the best pistol shots in the Rocky
Mountain regions, who killed Bill Price in the streets o Deadwood, together with "Curley"
Grimes, one of the road agents; Jim May, a worthy brother--a twin in courage if not in birth.
Few men have had more desperate encounters than he, and the transgressors of the law have
had many an occasion to feel the results of his keen eye and strong arm whenever it has become
necessary to face men who are prepared to "die with their boots on." Still another of these
border heroes (for such they may be justly termed) is Gail Hill, now the deputy sheriff of
Deadwood, and his frequent companion was Jesse Brown, an old-time Indian fighter, who has
a record of incident and adventure that would make a book. These men constituted a sex-
tette of as brave fellows as could be found on the frontier, and their names are all well known
in that country.
At last, however, some of them came to gried. The bandits themselves were old fighters.
The shrewdness of one party was offset by that of the other, and on an unlucky day the cele-
brated Cold Spring tragedy occurred. The station had been captured,and the road agents
secretly occupied the place. The stage arrived in its usual manner, and without suspicion of
danger the driver, Gene Barnett, halted at the stable door. An instant afterward a volley
was delivered that killed Hughey Stevenson, sent the buckshot through the body of Gail
Hill, and dangerously wounded two others of the guards. The bandits then captured the out-
fit, amoutning to some sixty thousand dollars in gold.
On another occasion the coach was attacked, and, when the driver was killed, saved by
a woman--Martha Canary, better known at the present time in the whild history of the frontier
as "Calamity Jane." Amid the fire of the attack, she seized the lines, and, whipping up the
team, safely brought the coach to her destination.
When "BUFFALO BILL" returned from his scout with Gen. Crook, in 1876, he rode in
this self-same stage, bringing with him the scalps of several of the Indians whome he had met.
When afterwards he larned that it had been attacked and abandoned, and was lying neglected
on the plains, he organized a party, and starting on the trail, rescued and brought the vehicle
into camp.
With the sentiment that attaches to a man whos elife has been identified with the excite-
ment of the Far West, the scout has now secured the coach from Col. Voorhees, the manager
of the Black Hills stage line, and hereafter it will play a different role in its history from that
of inviting murder and being the tomb of its passengers. And yet the "Deadwood Coach"
will play no small part in the entertainment that has been organized by "BUFFALO BILL" and
partner for the purpose of representing some of the most startling realities of Western life, in
a vivid representation of one of the Indian and road agents' combined attacks.
THE PASSING OF THE COW-BOY.
Until the advent of Buffalo Bill's Wild West introduced the cow-boy to the world at
large, the great majority of people had altogether wrong notions about him. This was due
chiefly to the misrepresentations of the cheap romances and the erroneous articles which
had appeared from time to time in Eastern magazines and periodicals, which made a sort of
"half horse, half alligator" character of him, and clothed him in a garb of absurdity and
misconception. That civilized life to which his calling necessarily made him largely a
stranger has, since Colonel Cody coaxed him from the plains, grown to justly regard him as
a singularity interesting fellow, and ordinarily a very brave, quiet and unassuming one;
generous to a fault, and a fast friend under all circumstances. It does not take him long to
evidence in the great Wild West arena that he possesses the qualities of courage, clear-
headedness, agility and endurance, which are absolutely necessary in the business from
which his title is gained. In the pursuit of that business he is called upon to undergo the
most severe hardships which can fall to the lot of any man, and he is schooled to bear them
with admirable and uncomplaining fortitude. Rising at three o'clock in the morning, riding
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occasion a Mr. Liebman, of Chicago, was killed, and his companion shot through the
shoulder.
After this stormy period it was fitted up as a treasure coach, and naturally became an
object of renewed interest to the robbers; but owing to the strong force of what are known as
"shotgun messengers," who accompanied the coach, it was a long time before the bandits
succeeded in accomplishing their purpose. Among the most prominent of these messengers
were Scott Davis, a spledid scout, and one of the self-appointed undertakers of many of the
lawless characters of the neighborhood; Boone May, one of the best pistol shots in the Rocky
Mountain regions, who killed Bill Price in the streets o Deadwood, together with "Curley"
Grimes, one of the road agents; Jim May, a worthy brother--a twin in courage if not in birth.
Few men have had more desperate encounters than he, and the transgressors of the law have
had many an occasion to feel the results of his keen eye and strong arm whenever it has become
necessary to face men who are prepared to "die with their boots on." Still another of these
border heroes (for such they may be justly termed) is Gail Hill, now the deputy sheriff of
Deadwood, and his frequent companion was Jesse Brown, an old-time Indian fighter, who has
a record of incident and adventure that would make a book. These men constituted a sex-
tette of as brave fellows as could be found on the frontier, and their names are all well known
in that country.
At last, however, some of them came to gried. The bandits themselves were old fighters.
The shrewdness of one party was offset by that of the other, and on an unlucky day the cele-
brated Cold Spring tragedy occurred. The station had been captured,and the road agents
secretly occupied the place. The stage arrived in its usual manner, and without suspicion of
danger the driver, Gene Barnett, halted at the stable door. An instant afterward a volley
was delivered that killed Hughey Stevenson, sent the buckshot through the body of Gail
Hill, and dangerously wounded two others of the guards. The bandits then captured the out-
fit, amoutning to some sixty thousand dollars in gold.
On another occasion the coach was attacked, and, when the driver was killed, saved by
a woman--Martha Canary, better known at the present time in the whild history of the frontier
as "Calamity Jane." Amid the fire of the attack, she seized the lines, and, whipping up the
team, safely brought the coach to her destination.
When "BUFFALO BILL" returned from his scout with Gen. Crook, in 1876, he rode in
this self-same stage, bringing with him the scalps of several of the Indians whome he had met.
When afterwards he larned that it had been attacked and abandoned, and was lying neglected
on the plains, he organized a party, and starting on the trail, rescued and brought the vehicle
into camp.
With the sentiment that attaches to a man whos elife has been identified with the excite-
ment of the Far West, the scout has now secured the coach from Col. Voorhees, the manager
of the Black Hills stage line, and hereafter it will play a different role in its history from that
of inviting murder and being the tomb of its passengers. And yet the "Deadwood Coach"
will play no small part in the entertainment that has been organized by "BUFFALO BILL" and
partner for the purpose of representing some of the most startling realities of Western life, in
a vivid representation of one of the Indian and road agents' combined attacks.
THE PASSING OF THE COW-BOY.
Until the advent of Buffalo Bill's Wild West introduced the cow-boy to the world at
large, the great majority of people had altogether wrong notions about him. This was due
chiefly to the misrepresentations of the cheap romances and the erroneous articles which
had appeared from time to time in Eastern magazines and periodicals, which made a sort of
"half horse, half alligator" character of him, and clothed him in a garb of absurdity and
misconception. That civilized life to which his calling necessarily made him largely a
stranger has, since Colonel Cody coaxed him from the plains, grown to justly regard him as
a singularity interesting fellow, and ordinarily a very brave, quiet and unassuming one;
generous to a fault, and a fast friend under all circumstances. It does not take him long to
evidence in the great Wild West arena that he possesses the qualities of courage, clear-
headedness, agility and endurance, which are absolutely necessary in the business from
which his title is gained. In the pursuit of that business he is called upon to undergo the
most severe hardships which can fall to the lot of any man, and he is schooled to bear them
with admirable and uncomplaining fortitude. Rising at three o'clock in the morning, riding
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