Chief of Scouts

Excerpt

The kindly interest with which the public has received my first book,
“Thirty-one Years on the Plains and in the Mountains,” has tempted me
into writing this second little volume, in which I have tried to portray
that part of my earlier life which was spent in piloting emigrant
and government trains across the Western Plains, when “Plains” meant
wilderness, with nothing to encounter but wild animals, and wilder,
hostile Indian tribes.  When every step forward might have spelt
disaster, and deadly danger was likely to lurk behind each bush or
thicket that was passed.