In the Old West days, several people changed the course of history for the United States. If I could be any of them, I would have wanted to be Frank T. Hopkins. If I were Frank Hopkins, this would be my life.
I was born shortly after the Civil War in a log cabin in Fort Laramie, Wyoming. My father was an army scout and my mother was the daughter of a Sioux chief. Growing up, I often rode with the Indians to capture and break mustangs. In my early teens, I rode dispatch for Generals Miles and Crook. Later, I was a buffalo hunter and worked with Buffalo Jones, Bill Matheson, William Hinrer, and Bill Cody. I was riding mustangs and had developed definite opinions about them. When I was riding as a messenger for General Crook, he mentioned to me, "...if troops can't overtake a band of Indians in two hours, it's better to give up the chase." When I asked him why that was, the general replied that the wiry Indian ponies "...can go 90 miles without food or water. They can wear out......

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