The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-06-06
The CHRONICLES of the Yellowstone.
An Accure Description Of the Country its Indians the Early
settless Their Struggles with the Aborgnes, and
Interesting "reminiscences Gathered from
The Early Pioneer.
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INDIAN CUNNING.
CHAPTER v.
This Il !, chronicle Of Yellowstone life
and adventure, but Bozeman must be
treated Of. for it was the market for all of
the pelb captured on that stream. From
itcame al Of the supplies required by
the tnppe5s, miners and ranchmen; in
it vas organised all Of the important ex-
peditions Of late years. and : large part OF
the old-timers. who made the town had
interests and lived At times on the Vel
lowstone.
Till the railroad came the interests Of
the two sections were identical and the
prosperity Of the one was reflecsed on
the other. In July Of this year (1S64)
Elliott Rouse located ranch at Boze-
mans present site and commenced to
build. F. F. Fridley, Cy Mounts, W. W.
Anderson, w. j. Davies, Bill Hefher,
William Beall and Joe Merivale, started
houses at the same time. There were
six buildings completed during the sum-
mer and fall, and some Of the emigrants
that came through with Bozeman and
Bridger settled in TIE Gallatin valley,
near to this place, and quite trade
apnane up. Stafford & Rice opened up a
little. Atore, as did Fritz & Son. Jack
Mendeshall, who had q saloon, had also
cknned goods, ETC., for, sale. The town
grew slowly till 1867, then the building
Of Fort Ellis gave it quite an impetus,
from this it has had steady increase OF
prosperity till the present time, and now
is an incorporated city with 5000 inhabi-
tants, and is the prettiest town in Mon
tanA.
John Bozeman organized another train
in Missouri this year and brought it
across his old trail to the east of the Big
Horn range and arrived at the Yellow
stone in August. Jim Bridger also guided
through train and arrived at the river
but q short time after Bozeman. He
went up the Platte to near the mouth OF
the Sweetwater, then across to Wind
river and through between the Big Horn
and Rocky mountain ranges, joining
Boseman's trail at the Rocky Fork Of
iCarke'sk Fork. Several parties came
through after Bridger, one of them hav-
ing twenty wagons and headed by Squire
Lilly, branched off the road at the Vel
4 lowstone and went above the canyon on
that river.
Tanner, an old Bozemanite, came
through with one of these trains after
Bridger, using an OK for saddle animal
In train just behind Lilly, one wagon
was owned by Methodist clergyman
The party did not 60 fast enough to suit
him, and at Rocky Fork he struck Out
ahead. As he was going down the hill
to the Yellowstone at the mouth of
Bridger creek he was met by party Of
Indians, and he, his son and hired
driver were killed; when found theil
ibodies were bristling with arrows.
Campbell came through with a train
sm Bozeman's trail and about four weeks
beiiad him. At Powder river he was
attacked by Sioux and fought them for
three hours, four of his men being killed
The Aaxages must have suffered heavily
Tor they bothered him no more durins
the trip. Fair prospects of gold were
found in Emigrant Gulch by those whe
had gone up the river, and many claim
were taken and . town soon sprang W
at the mouth Of the canyon. This wa
called Yellowstone City. About forty
houses were built and three hundred
people wintered here, fifteen of whom
were women. The ground was very dcel
and hard to work and many of those wht
had clsims did not get them properly
opened this season !; the result was hart
times. What little -four there was il
the country sold readily at 500 per sack
bacon sl.0O per pound, and all groceries
in proportion. The country was aliv'
with elk, deer and antelope, and wik
=. meat was the main article Of diet to thos'
poor in purse. A meeting was held il
the fall, which elected justice of tn
piece and made mining laws. Hanginl
was to be the penalty for murder, thiev
ing or for insulting woman The mex
spring many of the inhabitants of Vel
lowstone City left for better mining
camps, and those that stayed built TO
better protection, should they be attacked
by Indians, up in the mouth of the can
=. yon. The name given to the new tow,
!, was Chico. Some very good pay was fount
this season and the output of gold fo
1885 was estimated at $4,000.
In December of 1884 the first Montan'
Legislature convened at Bannack. T
;Sam Word, N. P. Langford and other
was given q charter for q stage and tele
graph line from Virginia City to tn
Z head of navigation on the Yellowston
&Emigrant Gulch speciRed) from there t
h the mouth of the Yellowstone. From
4.he amount of country that this com
pany controlled it was jocularly called tn
broad guage company.
A right was given to other parties for
r wagon road from Bozeman to Larami
City. The former company must hay
absorbed this latter, for we find ther
later ON putting ferry boats on the large
streams between Bozeman and Laramie
The Legislature also gave company tn
sole right to mine coal on the uppe
river, under the name of the "Red Strea
Mountain Coal Co.," taken from tn
DEVILS Slide at Cinnabar mountain.
In 1865 the Broad Guage compan
gave0W. J. Davies contract to bull
th rec ferry boats, one for. the yellow
stone and one each for Clarke's Fork an
Big Horn. Tomlinson had put up sa
mill on the first stream below Emigran
from this came the name of Mill creel
and Davies foated lumber from tn