for his courageous
and marvelous work in clearing up the mystery.

"He is a man among men," he said. "God bless him!"

Nellie Winthrop was overjoyed to be with her uncle once again, and took
good care that nothing should separate them. As for Jack, he guarded her
with a care which could not be exceeded.

"Ef they carry her off again it will be over my dead body, b'gosh," he
murmured more than once.

And yet Nellie was carried off four years later. But this time the
carrying off was done by Dick Arbuckle, and both Nellie and Jack were
perfectly willing. The wedding was a grand one, for the Colorado claims
had panned out big for the Arbuckles, and the best man at the affair was
Pawnee Brown.

In due course of time the bill concerning Oklahoma was passed by the
United States Senate and signed by the President. This was followed by a
grand rush of the boomers to get the best of the land granted to them.
The advance was led by Pawnee Brown, who, riding his ever faithful
Bonnie Bird, covered twenty miles in the short space of sixty-five
minutes and located his town site at the mouth of Big Turkey Creek. This
town site, along with his other Oklahoma possessions, made the great
scout a rich man. He never grows weary of telling about this great rush
into Oklahoma. "It was grand, awe-inspiring," he says. "I would go a
thousand miles to see it again--those hundreds of wagons, thousands of
horsemen and heads of cattle, all going southward, over hills, through
forests, crossing brooks and rivers--all bound for the land which has
since made them so prosperous and happy."

And here let us take leave of Dick Arbuckle, Pawnee Brown, and all their
friends, wishing them well.

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