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Yellow Hair Guide Recalls Fort Wallace Trek and Comstock Bond
A detailed reminiscence follows the overland march from Chapmans Creek to Pond Creek led by Colonel Tamline’s troops. The narrator befriends William Comstock, a famed plains guide, after a tense midnight ride to Fort Wallace. Comstock’s murder by a cowardly assailant is noted, and the memoir traces how the guide’s influence shapes the narrator’s career and ambitions as an emigrant wagon train leader.
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