The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-05-10
Old Miners and Old Noun
tain Men on the move.
Expedition will reach Obey,
enne on Thursday next.


William sloan, alias Idaho Bill.
called at the LEADER Office yesterday,
and from him we learn the following
facts that will interest all of our
readers:
Idaho Bill was born at American
Falls, on Snake River. in Oregon,
thirty-two years ago, at Johnny
Grants American Fur Company
Camp No. Is. His life has been
mainly spent in the mountains and ON
the Pucifc Coast. He talks the Sioux,
Crow, Bunnock and Shoshone Ian
guages, and has acted as interpreter
for the Government ut North Platte,
Fort Ellis aud other places. lie Is
personally acquainted with all of the
famous mountain me- who lived in
this country during the past thirty
years, and has ranged the Big Horn
and Yellowstone country from its
northern to its southern extremity.
He has visited the Stickeen and Peace
River countries in British Columbia,
and mined in them, also p~rospected i'm
Kootenai and Cariboo, aud rs far
southwark rs Arizona. He is "A me-
dunn sized man, with IA clear eye,
good-looking head, and n well knit,
hardy frame.
Idaho Bill left Kansas City on the
second of this month with five others,
and arrived in Cheyenne OF the 9Th.
They are the advance "skirmishcrs"
Of Colonel Carpenters expedition,
which will arrive here on Thursday
next. This expedition will consist of
from eight to nine hundred men.
About m hundred and fifty nre from
st. Joe, about seNcuty-GVc from Sedu-
Iia, and twenty-five from Fort Scott,
Kansas. 1T. Louis will furnish about
three hundred, and about IN hundred
and fifty were expected from Chicago
nearly all of whom are good me-
chanics. About half the party are
QUILTED and the remainder will outfit
here. The Kansas Pacific Railroad
transports the expedition to here at
the reasonable price of twenty dollars
IA man, and the outfits of those who
are Quilted for an additional five dol
lars per man. The expedition will
leave Cheyenne with six months
provisions, the necessary tools to mine
ard found settlements, and will he
well armed and Oficered. Col. Car
penter will command the expedition,
which will be divided up Hnder subor-
dinate officers. He is personally well
acquainted with the country they are
destined for, is an experienced miner,
and a reliable nan Idaho Bill will
act as guide for the expedition, as he
knows the country by heart, and
ranged ver a large part Of it in COM
papy with Col. Carpenter in &C.,.
idaho Bill describes the Tongue
River country as being extremely
beautiful and fertile, and says lie has
good gold diggings in n tributary of this
stream, called Goose Creek. Although
a young man, he was with the Idaho
party, under the leadership of Doc.
Smith, who set out from Boise Basin,
in ;he summer of '63, and struck the
mines in Fail weather's Gulch and
Brien's Gulch in Montana, which were
famous for their richness. He spent
considerable of his time within the
past eight months in travelling about
in the States, and has heard a great
deal of talk among the people about
the Black Hills of Wyoming, and gives
it as his opinion hat not less than a
hundred thousand people will pass
through Cheyenne within the next
six months to the country north of the
North Platte River. Very many old
mountain men and old miners whom
he personally knows, who went TO the
States and settled down, have grown
FESTIVE and want to return to the
mountains again. There is a charm
about the country, and an attraction
about mountain life that they are I'M
able to resist. a large number OF
these will accompany the expedition.
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