Wild Bill's Last Trail.
By NED BUNTLINE,
Author of "Harry Bluff, The Reefer," "Navigator Ned," etc.
CHAPTER I.
THE AVENGER.
"Bill! Wild Bill! Is this you, or your ghost? What, in great Creation's name, are you doing here?"
"Gettin' toward sunset, old pard–gettin' toward sunset, before I pass in my checks!"
The first speaker was an old scout and plainsman, Sam Chichester by name, and he spoke to a passenger who had just left the west-ward-bound express train at Laramie, on the U.P.R.R.
That passenger was none other than J. B. Hickok, or "Wild Bill," one of the most noted shots, and certainly the most desperate man of his age and day west of the Mississippi River.