0176    :       0LIFE OF BUFFALO BILL.
being more for style than speed-were over, and just as the crowd were about to return to the city, a purse of $250 was made up, to be given to the horse that could first reach Wyandotte, four miles distant. The arrangement was carried out, and Brigham was entered as one of the contestants for the purse. Everybody laughed at Mr. Bonham when it became known that he was to ride that poky-looking plug against the five thoroughbreds which were to take part in the race.
When all the preliminaries had been arranged, the signal was given, and off went the horses for Wyandotte. For the first half-mile several of the horses led Brigham, but on the second mile he began passing them one after the other, and on the third mile he was in advance of them all, and was showing them all the road at a lively rate. On the fourth mile his rider let him out, and arrived at the hotel-the om-s e-station-in Wyandotte a long way ahead of his fastest impetitor.
Everybody was surprised, as well as disgusted, that such a homely ." critter" should be the winner.  Brigham, of course, had already acquired a wide reputation, and his name and exploits had often appeared in the newspapers, and when it was learned that this "critter" was none other ;than the identical buffalo-hunting Brigham,. nearly the whole crowd admitted that they had heard of him before, and had they known him in the first place they certainly would have ruled him out.
; I- finally lost track of Brigham, and for several years I did not know what had become of him. Three years ago, while I was at Memphis, Tennessee, I met a Mr. Wilcox, who had :b een one of the superintendents of construction of the Kansa PacificRailroad, and he informed me that he owned aBrigham, an that he was at that time on his farm, only a few miles out of town. The next day I rode out with Mr. Wilcox and took a look at the gallant old horse. He was comfortably cared for in Mr. Wilcox's stable, and looked the