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 Buffalo Bill, who now stands unchallenged as the greatest plainsman living, was an intimate friend of Wild Bill, and the two, so long connected in their won derful careers, deserve a conjunctive position in history, such as I have here given them. The other heroes, Kit Carson, Capt. J aok, Gen. Custer, Capt. Payne, California J oe, and Texas Jack, have each made their private mark over the wild expanse of vvest ern wilderness, in the highway they so ably assisted in preparing for civilization and its peaceful pursuits teem ing harvests, happy homes, the building of cities, exten sion of commerce and all attendant blessings. They fought the fight whose victory has moved the center of wealth and population Westward, and therefore deserve the exultant recognition of every American whose patri otism extends from the 110311 to the soil of his nativity. 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.