Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-08-08
SHERIDAN'S RIDE.
Some of the Minor Incidents Attending
His Recent Mountain Trip---The SquaW
That ScaIded the Buck---A HO0f of
CuStar,S Horse.

Clusters Horse.
Correspondence (hicago Times.
A staff officer who accompanied Gems.
Sheridan and Cook on their late trip
through the Rocky Mountains says that
nearly all the streams which they forded
were much swollen during the day.
This may require explanation. Much
of the time the sun fairly blazed from
the meridian and, as the snow melted
rapidly on the upper ranges, the water
courses would be booming full by four
or five o'clock, in the afternoon. With
the descent of the sun the waters would
begin to fall, and by daylight next NOR
ming the streams would be quite low.
A packer named Delaney, who has
achieved some celebrity by his fine
workmanship, asked permission to go
IN pursuit of some mountain sheep.
He was told that he could go provided
he brought back set of horns. He
was gone just one hour, and returned
with two monster mountain sheep and
horns of the former were presented to
Gen. Sheridan and Gen. Sackett, and
the skin was turned over to the Sioux
guides. Delaney shot the lion through
the heart at a distance Of eighty yards
from where he stood.
The party camped over night at the
base of two splendid peaks that stand
side by side on the Big Horn range. AS
the pair had never been christened, it
was deemed the proper thing to name
them the Twins, a compliment to Gen.
Sheridan's pair--Irene and Louise. The
peaks rise to an altitude of nearly four
teen thousand feet above sea level.
There was one squaw who accom-
panied the Indian guide Every eve
ming at certain hour they all stripped
to the skin and FLASHED into some
stream, the squaw swimming, diving,
and playing with her lordly compa,1,
ions. On one occasion she refraineu
from going into the stream, and, as one
young buck swan to the shore and was
mounting the bank, she poured a pail
full of nearly boiling-hot water upon his
head and shoulders, causing him to
utter piercing yell and tumble back
into the cool river, heels over head. She
did it out of pure cussedness.
Charley" Gen. Sheridan's colored
body-servant, brought home a hoof of
the horse which Gen. Custer rode in the
battle on the Little Horn How does
he know the hoof belonged to Clusters
steed? Two of the Sioux. guides with
the Sheridan party were in the fight,
and they pointed out the skeletons of
the horses ridden by the General and
his officers. Charley says he is satisfied
that he has the right hoof.
The members of the party verify the
story told in the Times about the APP
palling hail-storm which occurred in the
Crow camp at the mouth Of Tongue
river in the month Of June. AS they
descended the Yellowstone they saw
the carcasses of hundreds of Indian
ponies which were killed at the time A
guide and scout named Campbell, who
was in the Grow camp when the storm
happened, told them that the hail, which
descended in cubes, cut through the
leather covering of the lodges, and dis
abled scores of the Indians. Many of
them would have been killed outright
had they not wrapped themselves in
blankets and buffalo robes and covered
their heads with complexities.