Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1906 — M. LE COLONEL BRYAN. [ARTICLE]

M. LE COLONEL BRYAN.

An Amusing Account Published In n French Newspaper. Some time ago there appeared in a paper published in tine south of France an amusing account of the life and exploits of Colonel Bryan that no doubt this gentleman fully enjoyed. The story was written by the Paris correspondent of a county paper’ It is based, so the writer says, on information he got from friends of Mr. Bryan who are prominent in Paris. A Western wag filled the Frenchman with startling information, and how he must have smiled when there appeared the following in cold print: “M. le Colonel Bryan first came into fame as one of the strange, half-savage baud of cowboys who roamed over the far West, fighting the Indians and wild beasts. Imitating, perhaps, the custom of the Indian chiefs, each of the cowboys bore a nickname based on some of his” exploits as a hunter and fighter. Thus M. le Colonel Bryan's title among his rough, but brave and sturdy, comrades was Silver Bill and Dead Shot. After the treaty of peace was signed with the Indians at Chicago in 1896, Colonel Bryan went out of the cattle business nnd became one of the bonanza farmers of the West. He can now sit on his back stoop, as the rear veranda is called in America, and look over his fields of corn stretching further than the eye can reach in every direction. As a result of his early training on the plans, where he spent months at a time without an opportunity of talking to another human being. the former candidate for President is exceedingly taciturn. He is the author of a book of adventures called "The First Battle,” in which some of his encounters with the Indians of the Tammany and other tribes are described at length.”