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I Am the Good Medicine to the Comanches
A first person reminiscence of a young hunter trader traveling from Fort Harker to Wichita, befriending Comanches, trading robes and furs, and learning their language. He describes buffalo country, cattle buying, a romance left behind, and his role as interpreter with General Hazen. The tale ends noting his nickname good medicine and foreshadowing another story.
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Fort Harker
Buffalo
Chase
Xeck
Arkansas River
Greenway
Little
Arkansas
Wichita
Big
Chisholms Creek
Welf
Smoky Hill
Antit
Oregon
Waterman
Minger
Cowskin Creek
Washita
Ieames
Jehan
Texas
Ind
Hazen
Indian Territory
Fort Cobb
Colonel Boone
Washita Mountains
Captain Hart