title: Two Rivers: Lieutenant John Bullis and His Days Commanding the Seminole Negro Indian  Scouts -- An Imagined Narrative
author: Stephen P. Cook
description: Stephen P. Cook grew up listening to the stories of his grandfather, a cowboy, rodeo rider, and rancher in Wyoming. Cook taught English at Sacramento State for twenty-six years and has published extensively, including the anthology Realizing Westward. Cook and his family split their time between Sacramento and the Black Hills of South Dakota.
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  # Chief of Scouts
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### W.F. Drannan
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  This page formatted 2004 Munsey's.
  
  
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  PREFACE
  
  
  CHAPTER I.
  
  
  CHAPTER II.
  
  
  CHAPTER III.
  
  
  CHAPTER IV
  
  
  CHAPTER V
  
  
  CHAPTER VI.
  
  
  CHAPTER VII.
  
  
  CHAPTER VIII
  
  
  CHAPTER IX.
  
  
  CHAPTER X.
  
  
  CHAPTER XI.
  
  
  CHAPTER XII.
  
  
  
  
  
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  Produced by William Boerst and
  
  
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  [Illustration: Captain William F. Drannan, Chief of Scouts.]
  
  
  CAPT. W.F. DRANNAN,
  
  
  CHIEF OF SCOUTS,
  
  
  As Pilot to Emigrant and Government Trains, Across the Plains of the
  
  
  Wild West of Fifty Years Ago.
  
  
  AS TOLD BY HIMSELF,
  
  
  AS A SEQUEL TO HIS FAMOUS BOOK “THIRTY ONE YEARS ON THE PLAINS AND
  
  
  IN THE MOUNTAINS.”
  
  
  _Copiously Illustrated by E. BERT SMITH._
  
  
  1910
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### PREFACE
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
    
  The kindly interest with which the public has received my first
  
  
  book, “Thirty-one Years on the Plains and in the Mountains,” has
  
  
  tempted me into writin