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SEVENTY YEARS
ON THE FRONTIER
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History of Alexander Majors,
Originator of the Pony
Express.
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STORIES OF EARLY DAYS
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Freighting and Empire Making---Au--
bery's Great Trip----Buffalo
Bill's Book.
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Two books lately printed should find place on the shelves of every American, more especially of every western American. It is not that the works are of singular literary merit, although neither lacks claims to value.
One of these books is entitled " Seventy Years on the Frontier." being the memoirs of Alexander Major of Denver. The other, under the title of " Buffalo Bill," was written by John M. Burke, or, if he can not be recognized under that style, Maj. Jack Burke.
These works are valuable contributions to the history of the west. They tell of the incidents of the settling of an empire, the everyday detials of the life of those who blaze the way of civilization. They speak of a class of men fast being removed ; the paldins of the prairies who will never be replaced. The frontiersman will presently live only in the memory of gray old men and will be seen only in base imitatious on the sensational stage.
Ingraham Has Heard, Both Songs.
Mr. Majors' books was edited by Col. Prentiss Ingraham. It was a happy collabra-
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tion. Col. Ingraham himself has heard the music of the Comanche's yell and can tell the difference between the impatient so-prano of a bullet on th wing and the pleasing of the lute. Col. Ingraham has helped make history himself, as well as write it.
Fortly years ago no man west of the Mississipi was better known than Alexander Majors. From the Big Muddy to the sun-kissed shores of the Pacific was rated a square man and brave one. He was a Christian and a t