CHAPTER IV.
I soon became better acquainted with Dr.Webb, through whose agency our town of Rome had fallen almost overnight.

We visited him often in Hays, and eventually he presented my partner Rose and myself each with two lots in the new town.
Webb frequently accompanied me on buffalo-hunting excursions; and before he had been on the prairie a year there were few men who could kill more buffalo than he.
Once, when I was riding Brigham, and Webb was mounted on a splendid thoroughbred bay, we discovered a band of Indians about two miles distant, maneuvering so as to get between us and the town.

A gallop of three miles brought us between them and home; but by that time they had come within three-quarters of a mile of us.

We stopped to wave our hands at them, and fired a few shots at long range.

But as there were thirteen in the party, and they were getting a little too close, we turned and struck out for Hays.