Category: Biographies
Preface--Introductory--What "Bat" Masterson Said of "Billy" Dixon--How the Story of His Life Was Written--Mrs. Dixon's Devoted Industry in Setting Down the Facts of Her Husband's Life--Fascination of the Plains Country 10
We started south to the Arkansas River in the fall of 1872, and when we got to where Dodge City now stands, we found the first buildings under construction. None of us dreamed o...
21. CHAPTER VII.We had lots of fun sky-larking in our camp on Moore's Creek, but spring was coming on, and it was our wish to establish a permanent camp at the best possible place. Unconsciousl...
18. CHAPTER IV.In the spring of 1868 I obtained employment with a man named Powell who owned a store at Baxter Springs, Kas. Powell owned a train of six wagons, all drawn by four-mule teams, w...
15. CHAPTER II.I was born in Ohio County, West Virginia, September 25, 1850, the oldest of three children. My mother died when her third child was born. I was then ten years old. I believe tha...
20. CHAPTER VI.Hugging the south side of the Canadian, we followed an old trail, called the Fort Smith and Fort Bascom trail, up to White Deer Creek, a beautiful, clear-running stream, fringed...
17. dim. Maybe he had been waiting for me all these years, waiting for meto see him. That was my buffalo. I determined that I should get him, even if I had to twist my fingers in his shaggy mane and drag him alive into camp.
25. CHAPTER XI.The most perilous adventure of my life occurred September 12, 1874, in what was known as the Buffalo Wallow Fight. My escape from death was miraculous. The year 1874, as the rea...
26. CHAPTER XII.In civilized surroundings a Plains blizzard is bad enough; in a wild country, a blizzard is more appalling than a tornado, for the latter may be dodged, but the blizzard is ever...
23. CHAPTER IX.In the restaurant part of Rath's store, a transom had been cut over the west door; this transom was open, as no glass had even been put in. This door had been strongly barricade...
24. CHAPTER X.The warriors that attacked Adobe Walls made an extensive raid. Writing from Cheyenne Agency, at Darlington, in September, 1874, a Government employee gave this information to th...
22. CHAPTER VIII.On that memorable night, June 26, 1874, there were 28 men and one woman at the Walls. The woman was the wife of William Olds. She had come from Dodge City with her husband to op...
27. CHAPTER XIII.Returning to civilian life in 1883, I struck north from Fort Elliott and went over on the Canadian River, in what is now Hutchinson county, Texas, and hired to a big cow outfit...
14. CHAPTER I.In no other country could there have been found a region so inviting, so alluring, so fascinating, to the spirit of adventure as the Great Plains. How it gripped the imagination...
13. CHAPTER XIII.Back to Civilian Life--Builds His Home at Old Adobe Walls --Plants First Alfalfa in Panhandle--The Dixon Orchard-- Appointed Postmaster--Candy and Chewing Gum for the Cowboys--M...
16. CHAPTER III.When the spring of 1867 came around, I was offered my old job on the farm, and Mrs. McCall, a kind, good woman, used all her influence to get me to accept it. But my head was fi...
7. CHAPTER VII.The Buffalo-Hunters Establish Themselves at Adobe Walls and Erect Buildings--Origin of old Adobe Walls--A Long Circle in Search of the Best Hunting Grounds--Roaring of the Vast...
12. CHAPTER XII.Blizzard Experience--Shooting at Jack Stilwell's Ear-- Indignation and Horror of Old Army Officer--Rescue of the Germain Captives--Finding of Julia and Adelaide in Gray Beard's...
11. CHAPTER XI.Dixon's Most Perilous Adventure--Buffalo Wallow Fight-- Terrible Suffering of Wounded Companions--Rescues Amos Chapman--Indians Charging Upon all Sides--Saved by a Cold Septembe...
4. CHAPTER IV.To Baxter Springs, Kas., in 1868--Hauling Munitions of War to Camp Supply for the Custer Expedition--All the Mules Stampede in Harness--Now Eighteen Years Old and as Hard as Nai...
6. CHAPTER VI.Down in the Texas Panhandle--Ruins of Original Adobe Walls --Back to Dodge City--Fitting Out of Big Expedition to Hunt Buffaloes--The Tempestuous and Spectacular Fairchild --Nig...
8. CHAPTER VIII.A Thousand Indians Attack Adobe Walls at Dawn--Dixon Tries to Save His Horse--Escape of Billy Ogg--The First Mighty Warwhoop--The Battle Begins--Indians Charge to the Sound of A...
10. CHAPTER X.Depredations of Indians--Quanah Parker--Buffalo-Hunting Abandoned--Departure for Dodge City--Dixon Becomes a Scout Under General Miles--Back to Adobe Walls with Lieutenant Frank...
2. CHAPTER II.Dixon's Birth and Boyhood--Death of His Parents--From West Virginia to Home of Uncle in Missouri--Lured by Romance of Plains, the Boy Starts in Search of Adventure--Reaches Leav...
5. CHAPTER V.Dodge City in 1872--Dixon Never Danced or Gambled--"Cranky" McCabe--Dangerous Country South of the Arkansas--Indian Scare--Name at Boiling Spring on the South Pawnee--Sham Duel-...
9. CHAPTER IX.Dixon's Fall in Rath's Store--Companions Fear He is Shot --Dead Warrior's Lance--Dismal Cawing of Pet Crow--Wounded Horses--Killing an Indian at 1200 Yards--Henry Lease Goes for...
1. CHAPTER I.Preface--Introductory--What "Bat" Masterson Said of "Billy" Dixon--How the Story of His Life Was Written--Mrs. Dixon's Devoted Industry in Setting Down the Facts of Her Husband'...
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