Excerpt from Heroes of the Plains, or Lives and Wonderful Adventures of Wild Bill, Buffalo Bill, Kit Carson, Capt. Payne, "White Beaver, " Capt. Jack, Texas Jack, California Joe, and Other Celebrated Indian Fighters, Scouts, Hunters and Guides: Including a True and Thrilling History of Gen. Custer's Famous "Last Fight" On the Little Big Horn, With Sitting Bull

The work of preparing a brief history of the greatest of plains-heroes has been one of especial pleasure to me, although at times many obstacles interposed themselves which only perseverance could remove. But the labor, nevertheless, has afforded me no little enjoyment, as it brought to my immediate consideration deeds of prow ess, cunning and endurance, putting to a test the meas ure of man's possibilities in a particular field of action. It is our natural disposition to admire true heroes, and not only to admire, but to exalt their acts, and this uni versal feeling, perhaps exaggerated in myself, was one of the motives which impelled me into a preparation of heroes OF the plains. While this volume abounds with thrilling adventures, sanguinary encoun ters and personal combats of the most startling charac ter, yet through every page there is observed a thread of wholesome justice, upon which is strung every deed recounted, preserving a forcible and moral in¿uence beneficial to young and old alike.

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