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Full Title	The white buffalo : a tale of strange adventure in the North-West / by Chas. E. LaSalle.
Author	LaSalle, Charles E., 1840-1916.
Date Added	28 January 2018
Format	Journal
Language	English
Publish Date	1903-10
Publisher	New York : M. J. Ivers & Co.
Series	Beadle's Half Dime Library > v. XLVIII, no. 1142
Source	Dime Novel and Popular Literature
Alternate Title	Beadle's Half Dime Library, v. XLVIII, no. 1142, Oct., 1903.
Topic	Dime novels > Specimens.
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He crmmm on Wm wuym ;;un:.iLo, ; Licutoiimit Putnam relaxed ‘ ....,...a'.--' . ,h ‘ ‘ h A ‘ t . I V . hL.“"“ . J X I ‘g .. A ,, f K -i .-,, “.4” BY CHAS. E. LASALLE, Aornoa or “auar BUNKER," E‘l'C., in-c. CHAPTER I. A iunvELoiis’ YARH’. Tm: was raging, and the wind was beating against the es and slamming the shuttem of tho “ Travelers’ Rest ” a tavern that stood at the end of one o the border villages of Misoiirl; and on this same tempestu- ‘ ous night, there was quite. an assemblage gathered here, smoking, drinking, chatting, and enjoying themselves after the manner character- was 9. man without any family about late enough forhiin to be thinking of starting for the beaver-runs again, he had come from somewhere in the interior to wait at the “Travelers Rest ” for the storm to subside before starting on his Eoiirney to the Far West. Nearly opposite to Vaufy sat a young man, in partly military c e, who, during the early part of the evening, had busied him- selfine ' ' gsome maps andchartsinhis possession, but who had laidthem aside, and was listening to but not joining in the conver- sation around him. - This youn man had ridden vup 'ust as it was dark, and ' ounting from his orse he had entered the bar-room, and asked if any one had been there inquiring for him. - “Who are you 2"’ asked the landlord, survey- ing him with no little curiosity. ‘I am Lieutenant Putnam, of Colonel Mc- andas it was ' “You are, eh? What are you doing here then, when the ’ve been gone over a month on the peraries‘ ’ . . “I was sent as bearer of dispatches to Wash- ington, and am now on my return. An escort was to meet me here, but I see nothing of them.” .4 “There hasn't been any escort here, nor any one asking for ou.” “ That settles that point, then,” said the oung officer, as, he bowed; “they were to be ere on the eighteenth, and today is gxvlclantieth, so that they are two days behind e. “ How many of ’em weie there to be?" “ Only three, as Colonel Mcliavens could not spareanyinore. Iwillwith d tw glad then it they don't llhppeedre 81 v?illorgo it one. ‘And so Lieutenant Willard Putnam made .1 X -