Colonel Rice was the inventor of this weapon, and it proved very useful in Indian warfare.

It is just as deadly in a charge as the regular bayonet, and can also be used almost as effectively as a shovel for digging rifle-pits and throwing up intrenchments.
The _Far West_ was to remain at Glendive overnight.

General Miles wanted a scout to go at once with messages for General Terry, and I was selected for the job.

That night I rode seventy-five miles through the Bad Lands of the Yellowstone.

I reached General Terry's camp the next morning, after having nearly broken my neck a dozen times or more.
Anyone who has seen that country in the daytime knows that it is not exactly the kind of a place one would pick out for pleasure riding.
Imagine riding at night, over such a country, filled with almost every imaginable obstacle to travel, and without any real roads, and you can understand the sort of a ride I had that night.