My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.

I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.

I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.

The first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour, visiting practically every important city in the country.

We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.

Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.

But the love of adventure was in father's blood.