River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-10-02
AN IOWA DIANA

A Fightfal Ride in Pursuit of a Fleeing Elk.
Charlton t'~.3 Leader wyoming Letter.
One os your lady residents Is, Mt this
writing, ranked as a heroine by the ma
tives of this wild, both whites and In
dams. Miss Maggie Foreman, who came
to the mountains few days since to visit
relatives, has accomplished feat of
which few hunters can boast. Miss Fore
man came to the springs, which are sit
uated twenty-eight miles above Fort
Steele, ON the head aters of the North
Platte, wi III her sister TO spend few
days in the very heart of the wild coun-
try. Mr.. Jim Adams, noted hunter and
scout, accompanied the party as guide
and general protector. Mr. Adams, who
is Miss Foreman's brother-in-law, was
raised in Mount Pleasant, in your State,
and came West in the early days Of the
Union Pacific railroad. Being of an ad-
venturous. disposition, he dritted about
among military posts and Indian vii
lagos, and he is to-day one of the most
daring ang bravest scouts that ever FOL
lowed trail in the Indian country. On
Tuesday last Adams started on broncho
to ride with scout to a surveying party
on Medicine Bow mountains, leaving his
handsome, trained horse with us. Adams
had been gone but little while when
Miss +. expressed desire 10 ride her
brothers. horse around. She gallopod
around the camp for while, and was
about 10 dismount, when shot was
heard about 500 yards up the river, and
a momClt later an enormous black elk
came dashlng out of ravine, with Jim
Adams n short distance behind in
full chase. The elk was wounded,
but vet able Ia run at great
speed. The writer, in sport only, never
dreaming she would undertake it, handed
Miss f. large army Colts revolver and
told her 10 90 and help catch the enor-
nous sI.iIaal. Miss Foreman took the
weapon and started toward the elk, which
was bus short distance away at that
momens And now began an exciting
chase. .'rhe horse was thoroughly train
ed for s.,ch work by Mr.. Adams, and as
soon as started upon the trail dashed for
ward With frightful speed Adams urged
his hoIsS forward in vain endeavor to
overtake her, but the little broncho which
he bestInde was no match for his own
favorite steed. The elk started for the
mouth cf the canon, about mile distant,
which it could reach the higher
We felt greatly alarmed for
Miss Foreman's safety, believing that in
the exc itement of the chase her horse had
become unmanageable, until she was seen
to fire she revolver at the elk, and then
we knew che was after meat. Two, three,
four shots were fired, and yet the speed
Of the 'elk was not lessened, but at the
fifth Shot it was observed to waver, stag
ger and IN moment fAll heavily to the
ground; Then Miss r. was seen to halt
and fire another shot into the animal as
il lay struggling near the horses feet.
We hitched up wagon and drove 70 tho
scene, where we found Adams sitting up
On the body of the fallen monarch of the
while Miss F., flushed and
stood near We had no ia
sIlities 10r weighing the animal, but Jim
saws il will crowd nine hundred or a
Thousand pounds very close. Miss r.
had the tail cat off as trophy, and will
soon exhibit it to her friends in the city.
4 numher Of Yuma Jacks band of Yute
indiana, who were camped near, and who
the chase, crowded around and
yazed upon the heroine with stares of
one of them remarking;
white sqnaw heap brave--ride all same
ike wih:i in storm"