The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-12
ADVICE TO hoy rERRoRs.
Proper Method of Staying the Red Man and
''D"ing Up the Grizzly.
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| Proper Method of Staying the Red Man and
''D"ing Up" the Grizzly.
NJ. Quad. in Detroit Free Press.
Came, my son, it is time You were getting
ready for spring campaign against the Indians
and grizzlies You have been reading Daring
Dan Ike, the Indian Slayer" Gus. the Griz-
ely Killer" and other exciting and truthful
stories, intended to make boy dissatisfied with
humdrum life. and your mind is made up 50 go
West.
You must have an outft. This can be got
while waiting tor spring 10 open. One reason
why many boy-hunters make failure Is be-
cause they economic too much in the outfit.
Don't be stlngy in buying guns 1t will be all
the better If you nave Spencer carbine and
double barreled shot gun to go with your Win
chester. Suppose you came suddenly upon
band of eighteen Apache warriors. You could
and two wonld be left to ride off
and alarm the trine. By having
whole crowd, and the tribe won't get onto you.
Aud don't sermp bowie-knives. IL would be
an almost fatal mistake to start out with only
two. Buy four at the least. They for
at close quarters with grizzlies. OF course
bowie is enough TO kill one bear with, but You
may be attacked by four bears at once and four
knives would then be in demand. If you don't
get but three bowIes make up the deficiency
with Spanish stiletto or a Moorish dagger. 1t
Will come in handy not only in close fight, but
TO pick your teeth with at the campfire.
As for dress. get the fringed buckskin.
coonskin cap and regular moccasins. Such
things as shirts. collars. cuffs or hankkerchlefs
would De only waste luggage IL you ShoulQ ap-
pear in Miles City with collar on it would give
you away at once. Nobody wonld suspect that
you were the Young Terror from the East who
was aching for chance TO tie knot in grizzly
bears tail.
You should take at least 200 pounds of am
muntion. You may b. corraled somewhere in
the Rocky noun tains by 400 fierce and determ-
ined Indians and you don't want TO loose your
scalp for the want of few extra cartridges.
All the provisions needed is sack of ierked
buffalo meat. It doesn't make the least bit of
difference whether the buffalo jerked off bis
feet over precipice. or head heels. If
the meat is a little hy blown it will add TO your
dignity hunter You chew plug to-
bacco or not, just you feel about il, but it |
would be the wisest to do All the champion |
comes handy to spit into rattesnake's eyes. 1 |
wouldn't take horse II | were you. He would /
be good deal OF trouble TO take care of, and |
most of your hunting will be in q rough |
country. The true Terror has always gone |
afoot aud always will. Anybody horseback |
can make UP faces at grizzly and gallop off ont |
of reach.
One great mistake which the average boy |
makes Is in planning to accomplish too much |
the first season Most of them figure wiping |
out about ]. 900 Indians and twice that number |
of bears. Keep your estimates down to a rea- |
sonable figure. You feel ambitious and /
thusiastc, of course, but there is a limit to what
a boy can do Set your figures at about 400 In |
dams and 300 grizzlies. This will be almost two |
per day the year round and will keep you from /
spelling.
I should scalp every Indian 1 shot It not
only looks more busInees-ike to do so. but that's |
what you've got a scalping-knfe for, aud if you |
can get about 200 scalp locks You can make the
incest door mat you It doesn't |
hurt a dead Indian bit to scalp |
him, and if you don'E take it
i will go to waste 1t would
follow you at the distance of mile or so to
pick up and care for the rifles knives, bows and
arrows and warclubs of the slain Indians.
These can be ruiz East by car lots and sold at
auction, and the profits will buy all your ammu.
nitlon. Don't exterminate any particular tribe
Of red men. but kill off about one fourth of |
seven eight different tribes. This will ex-
tend your reputation a Terror AS to the |
best way of killing an Indian | shall! not pre-
tend to advise. Some boys prefer to shoot him. |
and others believe in sticking him with a
you might drop big bowlder down on his head.
In any event the fun will be all on your side.
It's a little different with the grizzly bear
He won't be quite ferror-stricken over your
sudden appearance, being built on q different
plan. You exDect some show of resistance,
however. that you may have opportunity to
show your pluck. Some of those pae-faced,
weak kneed boys hold grizzly off at long range
md I'll him up with bullets. but you will never
see their wood-cuts in dime novel. The true
Terror will wind his Mexican serspe around his
eft arm, hold it out for the bear to chew on,
md, while the beast is busy getting meal, put
The Dowie-knife into him to the heart. You will
De a trihe nervous with your first bear. but
after that it will be as easy as climbing fence.
the claws should be separated from the skin
md sold in a different lot The latest quotation
IN bears claws is $l6 per bushel, and If yon
amt average more than two bushels per day
,ou will still make a good thing of it.