The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1869-07-15
NUMBER 40.


along the route We're solitary gravestones.
the last resting places of poor whites whose
/ last sight on earth rested on tho fiepdisb
face of a savage and the glistening of his
terrible tomahawk. In fifty miles travel.
We counted about twentv-eight of these
graves; and the whole country is filled with
them. A large proportion of them are
not marked
Arrived at Ellsworth about 10 O'Clock,
and here we began to see Western or bor-
der life in all It's phases. t has a popu-
lation Of about coo, composed principally
+ OF gamblers, scouts, courtezans. and sol
diers. every one carrying the Inevitable
+ slx-sheoter. We remained here until
Thursday evening, and during the day
saw the sights Nearly every house is p
! gambling house, and one could see the
well dressed gambler the long haired
! scout, and the copper colored greaser all
seated at long table watching the turn
| ing Of the cards, either at keno, chuck-a-
luck, or monte, aud more villainous looking
faces could scarce be picked up in any
| other town or city in the Union.
Thursday evening, started for HAYES
city, the great hunting ground. In pass.
ing a onS, each one intently gazing into
4 the distance to catch the first plimnse of
! buffalo, some one Of the party would cry
out, Buffalo Indians y and in a mo-
ment the side of the car would be crowd
/ ed by the party rushing over to ask
IVY here-?' but only to find to their great
disappointment that none were in SIGHT.
Reached Hayes city about ) o'clock in
! the morning, and after breakfasting hear
THY on buffalo and antelope, began prepa
ring fo- our hunt Net some old Leayen-
worth friends and We're at once CAPTURED
4 by them, and in an hour or so they had
the teams ready, which were kindly placed
at our disposal, as We're also the company
and services of two friends After ridin%
about half an hour. one of the guides
shouted 'Antelope !" and looking to the
front mile or So, we saw some thirty or
/ forty of these beautiful little creatures
running and leaping ike the wind away
from Us. Getting out of the wagons. the
/ party divided, aud succe~ ~ded In about an
hour in enticing a few Of them wisIin
/ shooting distance and killing two Bv-11
o'clock we had reached q point some seven
or eight miles from Hayes, but no buffalo
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on coming TO the top Of high butte or
| hill overlooking a valley, our eyes were
! greeted by a splendid spectacle Far as
the eye could reach, 1t was one moving
mass Of buffalo and antelope Fancy to-
Yourselves the country between Ebens5uro
and Munster to be a level plain, say one
or two miles wide, and covered with these
huge animals, and you have an idea Of
what one can see en- the plains. Stealing
as near 10 them as possible, we fred. and
brought down eight or the first fire
Away they went, the whole mass, below
ing, paving, and making the very earth
tremble for nom mt. In little while
we were after them again, and after an
exciting hunt killed three more. 1t -te-
gan to grow late, and we were some con-
siderable distance from town, aud so.
singing out the youngest buffalo of the
lot, we cut off the hump the choice meat,
and started on our return. We reached
Hayes about o'clock, pretty well IA yged
out, but highly pleased with our days
sport.
A place fifteen miles west of here being
our intended destination, we started for
that point, Ellis Tank, at c'clcck. and
reached it an hour afterward For miles
and miles away, nothing but buffalo could
be seen. Away off to the west and north
We could see them coming and going SIN
Gle file, through the numerous divides
or canons. The land IS filed with the
"trails" these animals make in their tray-
els, some being worn at least foot deep.
This being the great hunting ground Of
the Indians, we did not venture over two
or three miles from camp, otherwise our
adobe houses, which are holes DUG some
four feet deep and say ten or twelve feet
square, and also built above the ground
about two feet, aud roofed- They are very
comfortable, and a great protection in case
Of attack by Indians. who are seldom
known t. attack an adobe or dug-out.
We remained here until Monday, and
had sufhciency Of hunting. when the
party began to feel somewhat anxious
about the Indians and started for home,
reaching this city Tuesday afternoon, sun
burnt, tired. but highly pleased with our
buffalo hunt ii any of your Cambria
county hunters ever lack hunting ut home,
let them come to Kansas and try buffalo
and antelope hunting, and l doubt not
they VIII say there are more excitement
and pleasure in q day buffalo hunt than
in months squirrel, pheasant, or deer
hunting IL CaInotla county.
Quite number Of Cambria friends have
been here lately William Bruce and
family, who intend to farm, have bought
Gne tract OF land about twenty miles south
Of here; also, Fraak Kaylor, who left
Cambria county ~ 1856, and who has
bacn in Utah, Mexico, and the west for
some time; also, John Mckee and Robt
Mcconnell, vino have been employed on
the Union Pacific Railroad in the capacity
Of engineers. kAw.
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