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Identifier: sdbutcherspionee00butc Title: S.D. Butcher's pioneer history of Custer County : and short sketches of early days in Nebraska Year: 1901 (1900s) Authors: Butcher, Solomon D. (Solomon Devore), 1856-1927 Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life Publisher: Broken Bow, Neb. : [Merchants Pub. Co.] Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Text Appearing Before Image: the bunch, turn them across the river between the twoforks, then come back and drift down the South Loup river. They soonbecame very well known all over the central portion of the state. Milton andSmith were both men of good address, pleasant sort of fellows, and assumedgreat credit to themselves because they never stole horses except from theIndians. In the degenerate days of the present, the code of morals by whichthese men regulated their conduct would appear a trifle lame, but in thewild days of which we are writing the aborigine was considered a commonenemy Avho had no rights which white men were bound to respect or evenconsider. It is said that at one time Milton and Smith, with three men, madea dash on a bunch of horses and succeeded in getting about 140 of them.The Indians had lost so many ponies that they had become cautious andnight-herded them, making it more difficult for the thieves to get the startof them. There was a short time, however, between the watches in the even-

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