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| CHAPTER I. |
| Preface — Introductory — What "Bat" Masterson Said of "Billy"Dixon — How the Story of His Life Was Written — Mrs. Dixon'sDevoted Industry in Setting Down the Facts of Her Husband'sLife — Fascination of the Plains Country | [10] |
| CHAPTER II. |
| Dixon's Birth and Boyhood — Death of His Parents — From WestVirginia to Home of Uncle in Missouri — Lured by Romance ofPlains, the Boy Starts in Search of Adventure — ReachesLeavenworth, Kas., and Becomes a Bull-Whacker — Across thePlains — Hires to Farmer McCall | [17] |
| CHAPTER III. |
| To Fort Harker with a Drove of "Shave-tails" — Kills HisFirst Buffalo — The Medicine Lodge Treaty — ApproachingIndians — Stirring Scenes — General Harney — Satanta and HisHorse — Back to Fort Harker — Prairie Fires | [46] |
| CHAPTER IV. |
| To Baxter Springs, Kas., in 1868 — Hauling Munitions of Warto Camp Supply for the Custer Expedition — All the MulesStampede in Harness — Now Eighteen Years Old and as Hard asNails — Begins Hunting Buffaloes for their Hides — Establishesa Road Ranch South of Hays City — Lost at Night | [76] |
| CHAPTER V. |
| Dodge City in 1872 — Dixon Never Danced or Gambled — "Cranky"McCabe — Dangerous Country South of the Arkansas — IndianScare — Name at Boiling Spring on the South Pawnee — ShamDuel — On the Cimarron in 1873 — Prowling Cheyennes — CompanyM and the Al Frio — History of Buffalo Spring | [104] |
| CHAPTER VI. |
| Down in the Texas Panhandle — Ruins of Original Adobe Walls — Back to Dodge City — Fitting Out of Big Expedition toHunt Buffaloes — The Tempestuous and Spectacular Fairchild — Night Camp in the Plains Country — Dancing on a Dry BuffaloHide — Floods and Quicksands — Meets Jim and Bob Cator — Funwith Fairchild | [142] |
| CHAPTER VII. |
| The Buffalo-Hunters Establish Themselves at Adobe Walls andErect Buildings — Origin of old Adobe Walls — A Long Circle inSearch of the Best Hunting Grounds — Roaring of the Vast Herd — Business Begins in Earnest — Caught in Canadian Quicksands — News at Adobe Walls of Indian Outbreaks — Dixon Forms HuntingPartnership with Hanrahan — Location of Buildings at AdobeWalls — Fancied Security | [171] |
| CHAPTER VIII. |
| A Thousand Indians Attack Adobe Walls at Dawn — Dixon Triesto Save His Horse — Escape of Billy Ogg — The First MightyWarwhoop — The Battle Begins — Indians Charge to the Soundof A Bugle — Bugler Shot — Dixon's Marksmanship — Indians noMatch for Hunters — Running for Supply of Ammunition — TheShadlers and Billy Tyler Killed | [200] |
| CHAPTER IX. |
| Dixon's Fall in Rath's Store — Companions Fear He is Shot — Dead Warrior's Lance — Dismal Cawing of Pet Crow — WoundedHorses — Killing an Indian at 1200 Yards — Henry Lease Goesfor Help — Old Man Bellfield and the Black Flag — Death ofWilliam Olds — Lost Relics | [218] |
| CHAPTER X. |
| Depredations of Indians — Quanah Parker — Buffalo-HuntingAbandoned — Departure for Dodge City — Dixon Becomes a ScoutUnder General Miles — Back to Adobe Walls with LieutenantFrank Baldwin — Indians Kill George Huffman in Sight ofSoldiers — Terror of the Negro Cook — Pleasing Story ofDixon's Dog — Fannie and Her Pups | [237] |
| CHAPTER XI. |
| Dixon's Most Perilous Adventure — Buffalo Wallow Fight — Terrible Suffering of Wounded Companions — Rescues AmosChapman — Indians Charging Upon all Sides — Saved by aCold September Rain — The Long, Dreary Night — Death ofSmith — Dixon Starts for Aid — Meets Wagon Train Escorted byMajor Price — Heartless Indifference to Wounded Men — HelpComes from General Miles — The Medal of Honor Awarded | [254] |
| CHAPTER XII. |
| Blizzard Experience — Shooting at Jack Stilwell's Ear — Indignation and Horror of Old Army Officer — Rescue ofthe Germain Captives — Finding of Julia and Adelaide inGray Beard's Deserted Camp — Pitiable Objects — Catherineand Sophia Carried to the Staked Plains — Restored by ChiefStone Calf — With Captain Nolan on the Staked Plains — NoWater — Finds Double Lakes and Saves Command | [281] |
| CHAPTER XIII. |
| Back to Civilian Life — Builds His Home at Old Adobe Walls — Plants First Alfalfa in Panhandle — The Dixon Orchard — Appointed Postmaster — Candy and Chewing Gum for theCowboys — Married in 1894 — Serves as Justice-of-the-Peaceand Sheriff — Panhandle Pioneers — Changing Conditions — Breakingup of Big Cattle Ranches — Dixon Goes Further West to CimarronCounty — Would Live it All Over Again — Helped Build an Empirein the West. | [301] |