Excerpt from Quarterly Bulletin, Vol. 2: July 15, 1924 This continued until nearly morning when the Indians left, apparently satisfied with Fri day's explanations, but he detected their plan, which was to waylay Nickerson and kill him on the road when he left in the morning. To avoid this, Friday got him ready just be fore daybreak, sent a faithful brave with him in an opposite direction with instruction which way to go after leaving the river, mak ing a long detour and coming on to the home trail far beyond the Indians lying in wait for him. In this manner he escaped and April Fooled the Indians, but learned while in the camp of the Arapahoes, that Little Shield, a young war chief, and all of the young war riors were out of camp and over on Sweet water, as the Indians said, on a buffalo hunt. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.