CHAPTER IV.
YOUTHFUL EXPERIENCES.
At School—My First Love Scrape—I Punish my Rival, and then Run Away—My
First Trip Across the Plains—Steve Gobel and I are Friends once
more—Death of my Father—I Start for Salt Lake—Our Wagon Train
Surprised by Indians, who Drive us off, and Capture our Outfit—I Kill my
First Indian—Our Return to Leavenworth—I am Interviewed by a Newspaper
Reporter, who gives me a Good "Send-Off."