Buffalo Bill's Red Trail

Buffalo Bill's Red Trail: Or, The Road-Rider Renegade's Run-Down by Col. Prentiss Ingraham continues its serialization. The chapter opens with stagecoach driver Jack Jessop discussing the mysterious background of Sergeant Fallon—an educated officer of unknown Confederate past now serving as fort ordnance sergeant—with Fallon's seventeen-year-old daughter Lucille, a passenger traveling to Fort Advance. Jessop describes the dangers of the route from Pioneer City, including threats from road-agents called the Red Hand Riders and the vigilant scout Buffalo Bill. The narrative follows Lucille's coach journey through an approaching violent storm toward Canyon River Bridge. The chapter concludes with the Red Hand Riders ambushing the coach—masked outlaws led by "Captain Eagle" blocking the trail despite the driver's attempt to reach safety across the bridge.