I had several good offers to sell him; but at the suggestion of some gentlemen in Sheridan, all of whom were anxious to obtain possession of the horse, I put him up at a raffle, in order to give them all an equal chance of becoming the owner of the famous steed.

There were ten chances at thirty dollars each, and they were all quickly taken.
Old Brigham was won by a gentleman--Mr.Ike Bonham,--who took him to Wyandotte, Kansas, where he soon added new laurels to his already brilliant record.

Although I am getting ahead of my story, I must now follow Brigham for a while.

A grand tournament came off four miles from Wyandotte, and Brigham took part in it.

As has already been stated, his appearance was not very prepossessing, and nobody suspected him of being anything but the most ordinary kind of a plug.