Life and Adventures of Buckskin Sam. (Samuel H. Noble.) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ... GHAPTEK V. ESCAPE FROM THE INDIANS. After being with the Indians and their chiefs all of these years that had passed and gone, I made up my mind to escape from the tribe, for which I had planned in times past. The first thing was to make my plans, and the next was to excute them without being recaptured by the pursuing party. I had got out of powder and ball, which the Indians called "bumpo," and I told them that I could not 1#1 any more lions, or guanacos, if I could not get some more bumpo; that I should have to go where the white man lived to get the bumpo; that I wanted him to send one of the sub-chiefs with six of his warriors as guard for me, and to go into camp near by while I was away for my bumpo. I had been with them so long that I had gained their good-will by not trying to escape and by leading them to think that I did not want the white man to catch me, for if they did I could not hunt the guanaco any more. So the old chief held a council with the other chiefs, and finally they decided to form a party of six warriors, and a chief called Red Face, to escort me some fifty or sixty miles away. One morning I saddled my steed while the Indians were catching their ponies. When all were mounted we turned our course for the Rio Negro river. Now I was taking my old backward tracks, which I had made years before, but they were not visible as the heavy rains had caused them to disappear from my sight. Nevertheless we held our course for the lower plains. About noon the Indians lassoed two guanacos, and at night we all camped near a spring in a little valley where we dined on the flesh of the last named animal. In the morning we were off on the trail again and the second day at two o'clock we came to the Rio Negro river. Here we made a...