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.........Wagon -Train Captain for Susie & co., "49"er. Scout "Uncle Dick" Wooten's confidant, Contract Gratton Nugent-Hare {late of the Chainy 10th & U.S. Dragoons} as leader of the wagon train guards, left Westport, Mo. Met Brul'e Sioux Spotted Tail & dined on buffalo hump, tripe & brains with him. Try to help S. Cheyenne tribe down with the cholera, they are very thankful for trying, "Uncle Dick" down with cholera, he wants to be left behind & will catch-up later. Mutiny, survivors made for Bent's Fort, attacked by Cumanche's & held um off {thanks to Colt's revolving rifles & pistoles}. I was the Last man out of the abandoned Fort as it blew {William Bent had set timed charges}, falling threw a burning roof {severely sprained left ankle & flash-burns}, one Fitzpatrick arrives with a group of mountainmen & scatters the rest of the Cumanche's. Caught up with "Uncle Dick" down the trail with the mutaneer's who took the "Cimmoron Pass" cut off that survived it. When we arrived in Santa Fe, New Mexico, {it was like Calcutta in faire week} I stayed awhile as Susie sets up the highest class Shop in towne, I made a bundle and broke Cleonie's heart {left her with a Friar, knackered} then I left Santa Fe.
.........I rode through the Del Norte valley & rescued from a scalping party Takes-Away-Clouds -Woman \ Sonsee-array, Flashman-'Nugent-Hare' Duell {Bowie Knife v. Tomahawk} & I became an intimate {in her opinion the only one for her} of Chief Mangas Colorado's daughter. I put on a display of tent pegging with lance after being challenged & Won, I was adopted as a brave of the Membrano Apache, with the Yawner as my mentor {Geronimo, b'god!}, after wards I was given the name of White-Rider-Goes-So-Fast-He-Destroys-the-Wind- with-His-Speed, I Hied-off while riding with a war party. I rode the Jornada del Muerto, N. Mex., I was saved from pursuers by & rode with "Kit" Carson", place at Riyado then we set off for Fort Laramie. Feasted with "Kit", Spotted Tail & Little Curly White Hair {Crazy Horse}, I gave him his first lesson in ridding & winking. I joined a Wagon-Train as a scout/hunter {thanks to "Uncle Dick's" & "Kit's" references}, traveling from Southpass to San Francisco. I visited the gold-fields & gave it a go, met a mule-skinner who was a Professor of Greek.
.........Participated Australian gold rush in Victoria, ran a gambling-hell & played "nap" for gold-dust. The beginnings of local Colonial administrative troubles & its inability to handle the influx of the anarchic life-style of the minors, and attempt at discouraging prospectors by levying a heavy license fee. Constables were brought in, many of them being ex-convicts. The tactics they used were as unpopular as the license fee. Peter Lalor and former US Infantry Officer James Magill {who would lead the diggers during the "battle of Eureka Stockade" in three years time}.
