The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-10-01
AN IOWA DIANA
A Fightful Ride in Pursuit of

A Fightful Ride In Pursuit of Fleeing Elk.
Charlton Ha.) Leader Wyoming Letter. grs.f r>r.
One or your lady residents IS, at 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 81 nee 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 waters of the North
Platte. with her sister to spend few
days in the very heart of the wild coun-
try. Mr.. Jim Adams, a 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 drifted about
among military posts and Indian vii
lagos, and he is to-day one of the most
daring and bravest scouts that ever fol-
lowed trail in the Indian country. On
Tuesday last Adams started on broncho
to ride with a 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 F. expressed a desire to ride her
brothers horse around. She gailoped
around the camp for while, and was
about to dismount, when a shot was
heard about 500 yards up the river, and
a moment later an enormous black elk
came dashing out of a ravine, with Jim
Adams short distance behind in
full chase. The elk was wounded,
but yet able to 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 to 60 and help catch the enor-
nous animal. Miss Foreman took the
weapon and started toward the elk, which
was but short distance away at that
moment. And now began an exciting
chase. The horse was thoroughly train.
ed for such work by Mr.. Adams, and as
soon as started upon the trail dashed for
ward with frighttul speed. Adams urged
his horse forward in vain endeavor to
overtake her, but the little broncho which
he bestrode~was no match for his own
favorite steed. The elk started for the
mouth Of the canon, about mile distant,
through which it could reach the higher
mountains. We felt greatly alarmed for
Miss Foreman's safety, believing that in
the excitement of the chase her horse had
become unmanageable, until she was seen
to fire the revolver at the elk, and then
we knew she 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 a moment fall heavily to the
ground. Then Miss f. was seen to halt
and fire another shot into the animal as
it lay struggling near the horses feet.
We hitched up wagon and drove to the
scene, where we found Adams sitting up
on the body of the fallen monarch Of the
mountains, while Miss F., flushed and
triumphant, stood near. We had no ia
cllities for weighing the animal, but jim
says it will crowd nine hundred or q
thousand pounds very close. Miss F.
had the tail cut off as trophy, and will
soon exhibit it to her friends in the city.
A number of Yuma Jacks band of Yute
Indians, who were camped near, and who
witnessed the chase, crowded around and
gazed upon the heroine with stares of
amazement, one of them remarking:
"White squaw heap b1ave-ride all same
like wind in Storm @aE r'.a5