Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 214
months.As I listened to so much about Billy Bowlegs,I became very impatient to see him, and it seemedto me that the only thing which Uncle Sam couldhope to do was to make peace with him and hiswarriors. The few Indians I saw seemed shabbyenough in their tattered garments, for althougheach had been… … BILLY BOWLEGS. 159 160 FAMOUS INDIAN CHIEFS [Dec, more warriors than horses, but in spite of hisshort, crooked legs he could go on foot throughweeds and swamps faster than any other Indian.Once he took ioo of his men on foot from theEverglades sixty miles to Lake Kissimmee to at-tack one of Uncle…
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