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Card Number	1699
Source	Raiders of Spanish Peaks
Notes	But I like to feel I deserve it [name] most because I did preserve the American bison,' replied the plainsman. 'The fact is, though, that the name never stuck till after the massacre of the last great head of buffalo an' the bloody Indian fight it raised.' In the late seventies the buffalo hide - hunters chased the buffalo to their last stand. This was in Texas, south of the panhandle. Thousands of hide-hunters were scattered all along the range an' millions of buffalo were butchered for their hides alone. The Indian tribes saw their meat going, their buffalo robes, and that if they did not stop the white hunters they would starve. The Comanches were the fiercest tribe, though the Kiowas, Arapahoes an' Cheyennes were bad enough. If they had joined forces the West never would have been settled. As it was the buffalo-hunters banded together an' broke the power of the redmen forever. It was in 1877 that the big fight came off - also the end of the buffalo. But the hunters had to quit killin' buffalo to kill Indians. I was the thick of that campaign. Comanches under a fierce chief named Nigger Horse made repeated raids on hunter camps, murderin' an' scalpin'. I organized a band of hunters an' we tracked Nigger Horse's force in a deep rocky gulch an' planted part of my men to block the escape of the Comanches. That was about the bloodiest fight I was ever in. We surprised them at dawn an' all day the battle waged. -Tells about magnificent horse charge which failed. "Only a few of those riders got away." -Laramie supposedly toasted him after the battle: 'Heahs to Buffalo Jones'
Page Number	50-51
Subject terms	Buffalo Jones; Buffalo; Indian chief; Nigger Horse;
Creator	Wheeler, Joe
Contributors	Compiled by Joe Wheeler; Gift of Rex Maughan
Rights	Public domain; courtesy of L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University

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