Having once made up my mind, however, nothing could change it.
While I was selling my horses and other effects, preparatory to leaving the fort, one of my brother scouts, Texas Jack, said that he would like to accompany me.

Now as Jack had also appeared as the hero in one of Ned Buntline's stories, I thought that he would make as good a "star" as myself, and it was accordingly arranged that Jack should go with me.
On our way East we stopped in Omaha a day or two to visit General Augur and other officers, and also the gentlemen who were out on the Judge Dundy hunt.

Judge Dundy and his friends gave a dinner party in my honor at the leading restaurant and entertained me very handsomely during my stay in the city.
At Omaha I parted with my family, who went to St.Louis, while Jack and myself proceeded to Chicago.

Ned Buntline and Mr.Milligan, having been apprised of our coming by a telegram, met us at the depot.

Mr.Milligan accompanied us to the Sherman House, where he had made arrangements for us to be his guests while we remained in the city.