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4 revisions | Madelyn Meier at Apr 15, 2020 02:55 PM | |
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174is an improved Springfield rifle. The calibre is reduced from 61 to 50, and loads at the breech. it is well known on the plains, and is so worn that is retired from service. It is now carefully preserved at Rochester, N.Y., "with the rest of the family," -a wife and three children,- the only boy being named KIT CARSON CODY. Only the hind quarters, the tongue and tenderloin of the buffalos were taken; princely living such as railway laborers seldom have. In 1867, BILL moved with his wife to Hays City, Kansas, and hunted buffalo and antelope. He was the first man who made a buiness of shipping this game cast, and some of it was sent to Europe. In the spring of 1868, the last Indian war broke out, and he was employed by the Government as a scout and guide for the army under command of Lt. Gen SHERIDAN, whose headquarters were at Ft. Hays. BILL was the guide sent with the Fifth Cavalry, under | 174 |