CHAPTER VII

. Overland City—Crossing the Platte—Bemis’s Buffalo

Hunt—Assault by a Buffalo—Bemis’s Horse Goes Crazy—An Impromptu Circus—A New Departure—Bemis Finds Refuge in a Tree—Escapes Finally by a Wonderful Method

## CHAPTER VIII . The Pony Express—Fifty Miles Without Stopping—“Here he

Comes”—Alkali Water—Riding an Avalanche—Indian Massacre

## CHAPTER IX . Among the Indians—An Unfair Advantage—Laying on our Arms—A

Midnight Murder—Wrath of Outlaws—A Dangerous, yet Valuable Citizen

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