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I had given out beef issues to every agency represented and  interested in the Black Hills. I knew the chiefs and leading men in  every Sioux tribe and was able to converse with them without the  necessity of an interpreter.... The situation was so tense that soldiers  were sent over from Fort Robinson. Bloodshed seemed eminent. Had a gun  been accidentally discharged, the life of every white man present would  have been snuffed out instantly.\"\"  \"\"Arnold was a soldier in the Civil War, deserted on his second  enlistment, and re-enlisted under an assumed name for service on the  western Indian Frontier. On his way west, he helped to chase the  guerrilla Quantrill, saw the smoke of burning Lawrence, traversed the  Oregon Trail, and tarried by the way at Fort Kearney, Doby Town,  Julesburg, and Fort Laramie. Stationed as a military guard on the  telegraph line west of Laramie, Arnold herded horses, hunted bear,  became acquainted with Joe Slade and other notorious plainsmen, and saw  something of Brigham Young's Destroying Angels. Deserting again, Arnold  went to the Snake River, across which he helped to ferry the ceaseless  western-bound horde. Stampeding to Virginia City, he described the great  Montana gold rush. He visited every trading post along the Missouri and  became acquainted with all the characters of note, both white  and Indian. 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