Identifier: sdbutcherspionee00butc (find matches)
Title: S.D. Butcher's pioneer history of Custer County : and short sketches of early days in Nebraska
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Butcher, Solomon D. (Solomon Devore), 1856-1927
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life
Publisher: Broken Bow, Neb. : (Merchants Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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rifle and to seeone of the boys drop, but he was spared that experience. Jack Nolan was amurderer and an outlaw, and a price was set upon his head; he was a fugi-tive from avenging justice, but with all his depravity there was a little sparkof manhood yet alive within his breast which revolted at the idea of takingthe life of a fellow-being without giving him a chance to defend himself.Acting upon this impulse of his better nature, he walked out into the openand met the two horsemen with presented gun. Th(\v were completely takenby surprise. A\oods was a brave man, but Nolan had the drop on him andhe knew^ that he would shoot to kill upon the least provocation. He retreatedas gracefully as he could under the circumstances and put out for the hills. AND SHORT SKETCHES OF EARLY DAYS IN NEBRASKA. 105 Nolau motioned for Wlicnt to iul\:ni(t. ••^oll cnis liavc been followiiii^me, have you? Yes, replied >\lieat, timidly. \Vell, you have found mo; wliat arc you lioinj; to do about it?
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Sheep Industry Lees Park, 1887. *Seeiu as youve got the drop on me, I guess Ill have to leave that to vou. Then go and hunt up that other fellow and get out of this country asfast as your horses will carry you. and thank your stars that I didnt killboth of you when I had a good chance. Wheat did not wait for a second invitation, and wliilo ho is iiunting forhis companion among the hills south of Victoria creek we will return to ilu-Smith and Tee ranch and follow the fortunes of Jack Nolan, the outlaw. Supper had been eaten, and night, with her sable mantle, had envtloi)tdthe valley of the Middle Loup in darkness, when the tierce barking of thedogs startled the innuites of the lancli )u)use. Nolan rushed out. Winchester 106 PIONEER HISTORY OF CUSTER COUNTY in hand, to investigate the cause of the disturbance. The night was still andcalm, and as the hunted man listened intently he heard a great splashing inthe river near by, intermingled with curses and angry exclamations, indi-cating t

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