Good-by! I know you will have good luck, for you know your business." After the departure of General Sherman I made a brief visit to my sisters in Salt Creek Valley, and for a time, there being no scouting work to do, drove stage between Plum Creek and Fort Kearney.
I was still corresponding with Miss Frederici, the girl I had left behind me in St.Louis.My future seemed now secure, so I decided that it was high time I married and settled down, if a scout can ever settle down.

So, surrendering my stage job, I returned to Leavenworth and embarked for St.Louis by boat.

After a week's visit at the home of my fiancee we were quietly married at her home.

I made, I suppose, rather a wild-looking groom.

My brown hair hung down over my shoulders, and I had just started a little mustache and goatee.