The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1885-06-18
THE LOST CABIN ]! ( GOLD MINES.
By ]. S. WARM.

In the mean time. Hubert packed his
knapsaek, buried what gold dust he could
not carry conveniently and fed for his
life. He knew, trail east to the top Of /:
the mountains and by day light the next
morning he was FAR away from the old
camp. He conld see to the east an open
country and to the west Of him range
Of mountains covered with snow, wIicl,
he thought at that time to be another
spur of the Big Horn mountains. In this
however he was mistaken, as he was
without doubt, now standing on the Lit
tie Wolf mountains. He struck an east
erly course and travelled nights, the
snow capped mountains remaining in
view long time and finally on the eigh-
teenth day struck the North Platte river
80 miles above Fort Laramie at Reshaw's
bridge, where he found the old trail that
he went over in 1s49 to California, and
also found Reshaw and his family, the
first white people he had seen except his
two comrades. for many months. Here
he heard Of the great discovery Of gold In
the Alder gulch in Montana, and also Of
the big stampede from the east, coming
up the Platte. He rested for few DAYS
bought horse and saddle and started
down the Platte to meet the stampede.
was among the first who arrived at
Ft. Laramie. We had about dozen
wagon loads Of pilgrims in our outfit
and were waiting for more to come, as
the Indians were very hostile and we did
not dare to start out without a large
crowd. Captain Hubert came into our
camp from the west and told us his story
as it has been related in the foregoing
account, and showed us the gold which
he had. As might be expected it Gre
ated great stir In camp and everyone
was crazy to start at once for the mines.
Accordingly arrangements were made
with him to pilot US, as there was no
doubt in the mind Of any one that his
account was true. He was to take rs
there within twenty days. We waited
until we had 140 wagons in the train
and $50 men women and children. 81 4,
The Indians learned that we were Ro-s
ing through their country east Of the Big
Horn mountains and old chief Spotted
Tail went to the commander at Ft. Lar
annie and made protest. We were or
dered not to go and the old chief made a
speech, saying that he would fight us
every step Of the way. Hubert told him
in reply that there were not Indians or
soldiers enough on the plains to stop us,
and that we were going anyway. We
started out and followed the old Califor-
mia trail until we arrived at Reshaw's
bridge on the Platte, where we went into
camp. It was here that met MI. Boze-ss
man for the first time. He had come
from Virginia City, Mont. on horseback
to pilot a train Of Pilgrims on a short
cut to the mines in Alder gulch and was
now on his return. It was arranged that
Bozeman should remain here and pick
up another train Of emigrants and fol-
low ns as soon as possible. We started
on and went slowly, as we had a large
train, and had to make roads aud bridge
streams to get the wagons acroas. We
moved about fifteen miles q day. Caps
tain Hubert WIN with me i great deal 0f
the time 90 thai u had ample opportunity
to question and talk with him. and Ind
Z good idea of whore his mines wsfs- He
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