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Identifier: thirtyyearsonfro01mcre (find matches)
Title: Thirty years on the frontier
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: McReynolds, Robert
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life
Publisher: Colorado Springs, Col., El Paso publishing co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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frontier, volumes might be writtenof her sacrifices—Indians, poverty, years ofpatient toil, far from former home andfriends, the luxuries of organized society de-nied, all for the purpose of earning a homeand a competence for declining years. It was my good fortune to become person-ally acquainted with many early pioneers ofthe west and number them among my warm-est friends, and as I recall to mind some oftheir heroic deeds I feel that these chapterswould be incomplete without a personal men-tion of a few of them. Captain Jack Crawford, the poet scout, isone of those noble characters whose memorywill live so long as records exist of the pio-neers who braved the vicissitudes of the fron-tier and made possible our Western civiliza-tion of today. A man of broad mind, daringand brave and yet with all the sweet tender-ness of a child of nature, he became great byachievements alone. Others have gained atemporary fame by dime novel writers. Cap-tain Jack, in comparison with others, stands
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Captain Jack Crawford (page 208), THIRTY YEARS ON THE FRONTIER. 209 out as a diamond of the first water. He hashelped to make more trails than any scout un-less it was Kit Carson. That was before thewar. During that struggle he was woundedthree times in the service of his country.When the war closed he was for many yearschief of scouts under General Custer. Helaid out Leedville in the Black Hills in 1876,and was of great service to the governmentin the settlement of the Indian troubles whichsucceeded the Custer massacre. Captain Jack is one of the very few throwntogether with the wild, rough element of thefrontier who maintained a strictly moralcharacter. I knew him in the ^ ^ Hills in 1876and have known him ever since, and have al-ways found him to be the same genial, whoie-souled, brave Captain Jack. John McCoach, a pioneer of the sixties,was a among a party near the headwaters ofWind River, Wyoming, in August, 1866,who defeated a thousand warriors with thefirst Henri rifles used on

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