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with a Serious accident. He was taking his rifle out of a wagon for the purpose of shooting a wolf, and in drawing it out, accidentally discharged it , receiving the content in the right arm. He suffered greatly from the effects of the wound. We had no medicine man with us and strikethrough in the party /strikethrough his arm began to mortify strikethrough and /strikethrough all were aware that amputation was necessary. One of the party Stated that he could ^perform the operation strikethrough do it the man /striketrhough Broadus ? prepared for any experiment to be tried that was considered ^[might be] of service to him. ^[So] the ^[volunteer] doctor ^[then] set to work and with a razor cut the flesh and Sawed the bone with an old saw, the arteries being cut, to stop the bleeding, he heated a King bolt strikethrough of /strikethrough ^[from] one of the wagons strikethrough and /strikethrough burned the affected parts and then applied a plaster of the tar taken from off the wheel of a wagon. strikethrough The man /strikethrough ^[Broadus] became perfectly well before our arrival in hero? Mexico. We arrived at Santa Fe in November and ^[the same month] I proceeded to Fernandez de Taos, strikethrough the /strikethrough my present place of Residence, strikethrough the same month /strikethrough and remained during the Winter with an old Mountaineer by the home of Kincade. In the Spring I started for the States, but on the Arkansas River I met a party en route for New Mexico strikethrough and strikethrough I ? them and strikethrough remained /strikethough staid with them till their arrival at Santa Fe & then ? with a man, his name I have forgotten, to drive ^[a] team, strikethrough at /strikethrough my wages stirkethrough being /strikethrough ^[were] one dollar per day. I remained in his employ til our arrival at El Paso, ^[where] I took my discharge and returned to Santa Fe.