The Border and the Buffalo

AN UNTOLD STORY OF THE SOUTHWEST PLAINS

The Bloody Border of Missouri and Kansas. The Story of the Slaughter of the Buffalo. Westward among the Big Game and Wild Tribes.

A STORY OF MOUNTAIN AND PLAIN

BY JOHN R. COOK

MONOTYPED AND PRINTED By CRANE & COMPANY TOPEKA, KANSAS 1907

Copyrighted January, 1907, By John R. Cook. All rights reserved.

The Border and the Buffalo

BY

JOHN R. COOK

Especially dedicated to my crippled wife, who patiently assisted and encouraged me to write this book; and to Sol Rees, Mortimer N. Kress ("Wild Bill"); also, that noble band of Buffalo hunters who stood shoulder to shoulder and fought Kiowas, Comanches, and Staked Plains Apaches, during the summer of 1877 on the Llano Estacado, or the Staked Plains of Western Texas and Eastern New Mexico, whose memories will ever pleasantly abide with

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