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.

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

Indians were frequently off their reservations.

The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.

Washington newspaper men know everything.

With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound.

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.