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Title: The life of Hon. William F. Cody, known as Buffalo Bill, the famous hunter, scout and guide. An autobiography
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life
Publisher: Hartford, Conn., F. E. Bliss
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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own a needle gun or a Winchester rifle, as they now do.Their principal weapons were their bows and arrows. Seeing that they could not take our little fortification, ordrive us from it, they circled around us several times, shoot-ing their arrows at us. One of the arrows struck GeorgeWood in the left shoulder, inflicting only a slight wound,however, and several lodged in tiie bodies of the deadmules; otherwise they did us no harm. The Indians finally galloped off to a safe distance, whereour bullets could not reach them, and seemed to be holdinga council. This M-as a lucky move for us, for it gave us anopportunity to reload our guns and pistols, and prepare forthe next charge of the enem3^ During the brief cessationof hostilities, Simpson extracted the arrow from Woodsshoulder, and put aji immense quid of tobacco on thewound. W^ood was then ready for business again. The Indians did not give us a very long rest, for with an-other desperate charge, as if to ride over us, they came dash-
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HOLDING THE FORT. WE HOLD THE FORT. , 83 ing towards the innle barricade. We gave tliein a hot recep-tion from our yagers and revolvers. They could not stand,or understand, the rapidly repeating fire of the revolvers,and we again checked them. They circled around us onceinore and gave us a few parting shots as they rode ofl, leav-ing behind them another dead Indian and a horse. For two hours afterwards they did not seem to be doinganything but holding a council. We made good use of thistime by digging up the ground inside the bai-ricade with ourknives and throwing the loose earth around and over themules, and we soon had a very respectable foitification. Wewere not troubled anv more that dav, but duriuij the nio-litthe cunning rascals tried to burn us out by setting fire to theprairie. The buffalo grass was so short that the fire did nottrouble us much, but the smoke concealed the Indians fromour view, and they thought that they could approach close tous without being seen. We were aw

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