The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-06-27

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able to be taken down the river in a
travois.
Mr.. Evarts wrote and printed an account
of his trip, in which he says, that his
horse ran away from him few days
after he was lost. That when his matches
gave out he lighted fires with his glasses.
That when three weeks away he lost his
glasses, (he had left his gun and pistol
before) and for the remainder of the trip
had to eat his food (mostly fish) uncook-
ed. For the last six or seven days of
this terrible time, he lived entirely on
grasshoppers. He was lost thifty-nine
days and when found weighed just fifty
pounds. There was some evidence found
the next season that conflicts with Mr..
Evarts statement as regards his horse.
Some of the packers with Prof. Hayden
found, near where Mr.. Evarts was lost, a
brush wicky-up and the remains of a
camp fire, that had apparently been used
for ten or twelve days. Around this
were the partly burnt ribs and other
bones of a horse, and it is believed that
here he killed his horse and laid waiting
for rescuing party, till he had eaten it.
Lieut.. Doane made report of his trip
to the War Department. Its publication
caused quite sensation in the eastern
states, it being the first account given of
these wonders under the seal of authori-
ty, and was the cause of Prof Hayden,
the United States geologist, being sent
out the next season.
The control of the Indians passed from
the hands of the War, to the Interior
Department this year and in July Maj.
Pease was appointed agent for the Crows,
he being the first civilian to hold that
Office.
John Brown was camped near the di-
dide between the Yellowstone and Boul-
der and just below the Indian trail that
ran from the agency to the Natural
bridge on the Boulder. He was engaged
in hunting for the agency. In the latter
part OF February 1871 he was attacked by
Indians and after sharp fight was killed
by them. When his squaw heard the
firing she left camp and went direct to
the agency. Some of the people in the
country thought that the Crows were the
Indians that killed him, but the fact of
his having one of their squaws for wife
and had lived with her tribe for long
time, is sufficient to disprove the charge.
In May Harry Horr and James Mozart
ney went to the Mammoth Hot Springs,
and located claims of 100 acres each. At
nearly the same time McGuirk made a
claim at the hot springs on Gardiner
river.
Jack Baronett built the first bridge
ever put across the Yellowstone during
this summer. Its location was just above
the mouth of the east fork and it was
built for the accommodation of the trav-
elers to the Clarke's Fork mines.
DR.. Frost had a ranch above the lower
canyon and lived there with his Indian
wife. One day in September he, with
his squaw and child, went down to the
agency to draw rations and get needle
gun. When going back and but mile
and half from the agency he was at
tackled by Sioux war party and he, his
wife and child and squaw who was 60
ing up on visit, were killed.
Prof. Hayden, the United States geolo-
gist, with corps Of topographers and
naturalists explored the headw aters of
the Yellowstone and Madison rivers.
With him was Moran the great colorist.
He made picture of the Yellowstone
falls and canyon, for which Congress
gave $4,000 and it now hangs in the old
hall of representatives. Many of his
brother artists criticised its high color
ing. Among these critics was Bierlstadt.
In 1881 the. latter artist came to the
National Park and after seeing the vivid
and varied coloring of the canyon re-
marked that he owed and shonld give an
apology to Moran, for no colon in art
could do justice to natures, as shown
here.
Hayden's report to Congress caused
that body to set this country apart as a
national pleasure ground. All of the sci
entific data gathered by him were burnt
in the Chicago fire, necesitating another
expedition the following year.
Muhlenberg, Northern Pacific engi-
neer, with small military escort from
Fort Ellis started from Bozeman in tho
fall to survey down the Yellowstone.
He ran his lines to near the mouth of
Pryor creek, where all work was stopped
by severe snow storm. and the party
returned to Fort Ellis.