Tireless as the Indian, knowing their traits, characteristics, and habits reading the secrets of the Plains like an open book, careless of personal danger, and accustomed to loneliness, they remained on the skirmish line of civilization, and of many of them the fate is unknown. These men have won fame that will endure in the history of the Plains.
Cody, Bill Hickok, California Joe, Dick Cherry, and Amos Chapman, of a later generation.īy daring, endurance, resourcefulness, and constant devotion to duty, these men have endurance, resourcefulness, and constant devotion to duty. Maxwell, Old Bill Williams, Tom Tobin, and James Hobbs, among the old-timers and W. Beckwourth, Uncle Dick Wootton, Jim Baker, Lucian B. Such were Uncle John Smith, Kit Carson, Jim Bridger, James P. The names of many of these men became renowned upon the Plains and deserve remembrance by this generation.
To such as these - the scouts and guides of the frontier - every prairie traveler, every incoming settler, every officer riding at the head of his troop and seeking the savage foe owed gratitude. The West owes much to those hardy men who, usually from mere love of adventure, wandered alone or in small companies across the wilderness, ever in advance of the settlements and the troops, exploring the unknown, tracing nameless rivers, uncovering hidden water holes in the harsh desert, penetrating to every nook and corner of the Great Plains and the mountains beyond, discovering the haunts of Indians, the routes which the wheels of caravans could follow with the greatest safety, the best camping spots, the scattered places where wood and water were sure to be found.
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