._ Boston people; with a mission to regenerate the world,
Indians especially.

_Joe._ Well, I should think Deadshot would like his errand. He is a
Boston man I've always understood.

_Wickliffe._ Yes. He came out here with me ten years ago, just out
of college, rich, adventurous and restless. City life was too tame
for Arthur Cambridge. You know how he took to the life of a scout,
and now, under the name of Captain Deadshot, he is the most famous
Indian fighter and scout on the plains.

[Illustration: _Title Page, Book of "The Ogallallas"_]

Imagination could finish the story, but the old, old Beadle Dime Novel of
the Scout, the Girl and the Redskins--capture, threatened death, beautiful
Indian maidens, villain, hero, heroine and rescue, "You set fire to the
girl and I'll take care of the house"--excellently executed in dialogue and
verse, briefly represent the whole thing. The cast of characters in the
first night's production, February 16, 1893, which was widely reviewed and
complimented by the critics in next day's Chicago dailies, was as follows:

CAST OF CHARACTERS.

Arthur Cambridge, known as Captain Deadshot Tom Karl
Professor Andover, a philanthropist H. C. Barnabee
War Cloud, chief of the Ogallallas W. H. McDonald
Cardenas, a Mexican bandit Eugene Cowles
Mississinewa, medicine man of Ogallallas George Frothingham
Wickliffe } { Peter Lang
Buckskin Joe } Scouts { Clem Herschel
Commander United States forces W. A. Howland
Edith, niece and ward of Professor Andover Camille D'Arville
Minnetoa, an Indian girl Flora Finlayson
Miss Hepzibah Small, Edith's governess Josephine Bartlett
Kate, friend of Edith Lillian Hawthorne
Cosita, a Mexican girl Lola Hawthorne
Laura, friend of Edith Georgie Newel

"Bill" MacDonald, the big baritone, as "War Cloud," seized the opportunity
of his life. He almost ran away with the piece and anyone ever after, who
would say "Ogallallas" could get a conversation out of him that would wind
up with "that was the greatest stuff ever written." When costumed and
wearing the Chief's head-dress (old-timers may recall having observed it
hanging