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I have generally been successful financially on the stage . I am now in the cattle business in Nebraska , to which place I will return as soon as the season is over , providing nothing serious occurs to call me home earlier . '' As Buffalo Bill , in the foregoing chapter speaks of his killing Yellow Hand , the celebrated Cheyenne chief , who was greatly feared by his own people , and a terror to the whites , I will give an account of that tragic duel between a white man and two Indians , for another chief also rode down and attacked the noted scout , after his red comrade had fallen . When the Indian war of 1876 broke out Buffalo Bill at 01:00 closed his dramatic season , and started post haste for the West , having received a telegram from General E.A. Carr asking for his services as scout in the coming campaign . He joined the command at Fort D.A. Russell , where the famous Fifth Cavalry Regiment was then in camp , and arriving received a boisterous welcome from his old comrades , who felt that , with Buffalo Bill as Chief of Scouts , they would surely have warm work with the Indians . The Fifth Cavalry was at once ordered to operate in scouting the country on the South Fork of the Cheyenne and to the foot of the Black Hills , and it was while driving the Indians before them that the news came of Custer 's fatal fight with Sitting Bull on the Little Big Horn . General Merritt , who had superseded Carr in command marched at once to the Big Horn country , and while _ en route _ there came news of a large force of warriors moving down to join Sitting Bull .