The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-09-06

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FROM A Quiet Life" byA d.
assooing Grizzly Bear-An Episode
In the Life Of Frontiersman.
Mr.. F. s. Kellogg. Of Santa Barbara.
al, furnishes for the Turf, Field and
Farm the following interesting sketch % Of
roughing it" on the frontier:
AS TO the request you made in regard
70 condensed history Of my pioneer life,
hardly know how to answer. It would
consume great deal of time to give YOU
anything OF sketch; but, perhaps, when
am more at leisure l may be able to COM
ply with your wishes; at present, how
ever, L would hardly have time to spare
10 tell so long a story on paper, as the
story of my pioneer life is the story of
my whole life nearly, filled with the trials
and privations. togetherwith the exciting
scenes of the chase and adventures con.
nected with life spent almost wholly
upon the frontiers Of the West, further
West, and furthest West.
came to Illinois in the year 1919. when
only four years of age. Morgan county
was then wilderness, my father building
the first cabin within its limits. Our
nearest white neighbor was thirty miles
distant, but Indians all around U.S., AS
soon as this new country became some
what sparsely settled, my father moved
again on the frontier, our nearest neigh
Dor being twelve miles from US. Here l
attained to manhood, and was married to
a daughter Of one of our few neighbors.
! only remained few years longer in tie
Mississippi Valley, then left for the far
off shores Of the great Pacific. This was
in the year 1846, before the discovery of
gold. California was at this time Mexi-
can province, containg only about 32O
white men within its extensive territory,
and the whole country filled with bears,
and came very near being hunters par
adise. could have killed game enough
to have fed fifty men. ..
We had some hardships to endure as
we'll as pleasure to enjoy. We had to tan
our own leather and make our own
shoes, and generally our coats and panta-
looms also, or else enjoy the doubtful COM
fort of going minus shoes, coat and pants.
But buckskin made good clothing as well
as shoes. Iwent hunting every Saturday,
and fed as well as shod my family for ten
or twelve years, more or less. Though
we had some hard time, we lived better
than l ever lived before or since, or ever
expect to again in this world.
The first fall after arrived in Califor-
MIA I killed and put up enough bacon
made of grizzly bears to last me two
wears. This furnished us bacon and oil.
in which to fry venison and cakes, and
with which to shorten bread. make soap;
and other purposes for whlcn: .aro
is usually employed. Our wants were
r,oss1xy cofief9Qd the nTSI
fall we were. somewhat extravagant
and killed more game than we
needed: but afterwards we killed just
to satisfy our wants, leaving the remain
der for another time. expect have en-
loved the pleasure of hunting as much as
anv one. almost. l have killed seventy
odd grizzly bears, hundred elk, more or
less. and deer and other game W1tnout
number. The first fall I killed fourteen
grizzly bears. In all my bear kllhng
have never been caught by one, but have
rim some pretty narrow chances. L nave
known others to be badly handled py
them. and. after the bear had left them'
crawling out and making their escape.
Others have known so badly injured as
to he long in recovering, and some VINO
neverdid. have carried q grist, exPeGC,
further to mill than most men. DIousn'
sack of corn from Missouri to Calnoi-
MIA, and have had it ground and mace ln'o
bread. .,,+ ont
III will only give you one bear hunt Tha C%a
of the many I have experieneced.. 7.,,+,no. 10 .
bear had been in the habit OF VISIBLE a
bachelors camp, and dong aOouI a;vo' %S
liked. A company of hunters c9ncelve. con ,.s
the nlan of taking him alive. We mns'
tered about twenty men, with horses,
rones. and other appliances, with Wni.
to secure bruin when found. Az nlgh. "a
we law in wait for him. and soon a1ter IN 1ne
moon arose the huge monster W. uls. ~
covered 1eisurelv crossing the plaln ~.
ward the cabin of said bachelor. Uul
nlan was tn let him get well out upon tnt
pia;n plaM W. '1 then m lasgo him and tie MN
sacnro,v ~ and take him to Ine 1
town and have him fight VIII
wild California bull. But W.
~ove chase too soon, for his bearsnlP sec
no mo- ~ % manv against him, delloera1eiS
mounted the TOP of alarge oak tlee' ans
refused to come down to be lassoe99 la9.a r. r.
council was called, and we conGluueo a.us7 nm, =.
retreat and let Mr.. Crsa come uumm asod
molested. When we were, as M NC supc tpps,,mec
cone. he quietly came down az anu s,,nnar ,n n
his tourney to the cabin ior nis s:,e5 eSP - oct
nork. which thus far he nao 1aneu aaa;n -, W.
AS soon as he was on the Ioau a.uo+reoted Il
Pnr5rsa pI We IL then decided tn
NC ,.o was about five feet in dlameUelbI ~ ~
c,,t # down to secure our prize: 1or "9 Gn,, n@.
~ idea Of being outdone by pese.. T. o~as ~
no,on+iv ~ a committee was sent ioI 49, ~,
srg and the work of bringing down 1ns sne oor cu,
an anenced in good earnest, anu WaI 49,, S
:na ~ with0i1t intermission TOT ;n. apvu
thrao honrs. the elevated monster t LovAths ~