When we made camp my titled guest plied me with questions about buffaloes and how to kill them.

He wanted to know whether a gun or a pistol was the proper weapon and whether I would be sure to supply him with a horse that was trained in buffalo hunting.
I told him that I would give him Buckskin Joe, the best buffalo horse in the country, and that all he would need to do would be to mount the animal and fire away every time he saw a buffalo.
At nine o'clock in the morning we were all galloping over the prairies in search of big game.

I waited till everyone was ready, and then led the party over a little knoll that hid the herd from view.

In a few minutes we were among the buffaloes.
Alexis first chose to use his pistol.

He sent six shots in rapid succession after one bull, at a distance of only twenty feet, but he fired wildly, and did no damage whatever.