Jimmy Tahoe

Jimmy Tahoe and Samuel Hartsel were driving the first purebred herd of Durham Shorthorn Cattle, to Colorado. When U.S. Calvary Colonel, John Chivington and the Colorado Volunteers massacred two tribes of the Cheyenne and one tribe of the Arapaho at Sand Creek in 1864. Afterwords, life changed for everyone living on the western edge of the Great Plains.

Jim was five years old when his parents were murdered traveling to Bent's Fort, by Pawnee Warriors, in 1833. Swift Hawk Lying Down discovered him, sometime later, hiding in the tall grass. Swift Hawk could pronounce Jim's first name, but he had trouble pronouncing Jimmy's last name. The closest he could get to a correct pronunciation was "Jimmy Tahoe."

Raised by the Southern Cheyenne, Jim fell in love with a woman he could never have; unless he went off and made enough money, and secured enough horses, to pay her Bride Price. So Jim left the Southern Cheyenne to seek his fortunes. He learned the West while traveling with Kit Carson, John C. Frémont, and mapmakers for the Army Corps of Engineers. After making his fortune, when Jim returned Swift Hawk's natural born son, Black Kettle, had already married Medicine Woman Later, and Jim continued on with life. Jimmy Tahoe began scouting and guiding for westward pilgrims. Through is adventures he made a new family.

He found Emma wandering the Great Plains, in 1858. Her kin kilt by the Kiowa. In 1859 he found Nestor and Josephine shackled behind a slave trader's wagon. He used every penny he had, on him, to buy their freedom. In 1960 Jim found Logan James, a baby in the wreckage of a broken prairie schooner.