Salvete Omnes,
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| Will Comstock in Harper's illustration from June, 1867 |
a little article from Old West Magazine 1969 on this US Army Scout and soldiers' guide - William 'Medicine Bill' Averil Comstock (1842-1868). His mother, Sarah Sabina Cooper. was a nice of James Fenimore Cooper, famous American writer.
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| the contest between Buffalo Bill and Comstock in killing bison |
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| Fort Wallace |
From general G. A. Custer's Wild life on the Plains and horrors of Indian warfare - the killing of Comstock by the Cheyenns near Fort Hayes in 1868-
W.E. Webb's recollections about Comstock from Harper's Monthly Magazine, Nov 1875.
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