Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1889-11-01
IN THE GOLD COUNTRY.
An OLD MINER TALKS or THE EARLY
oAYsGN THE BLACK HILLS.

An rniere,tus Iaik over n Camp PR
Huekskin jacks Hunt for the India
How Wild Dan Brouehi In a Coaci
Load Of Dead Pasaengers.
As was travelling through Colorado
and Montana on a trip for my health
struck the town Of Big Sandy N T
The little city was all excitement ocei
the reported discovery Of gold and silver
In the Sweet Grass hills. a distance OF
sixty miles northwest OF big Sandy ami
the town was filled with prospectom OF
all descriptions, from the old timer Of
40 to the youth fresh from the east in
search VI his fortune, all bound for the
new gold and silver fields
As | had plenty Of time on my hands
and wanted a little excitement. ! joined
a prospecting party We started for the
promised land the next day and on the
second day out we were in sight Of the
East Buttes. | rode on in advance Of
the party. and as il was getting dark /
was looking for some shelter in which TO
,pass the night. After riding haphazard
for nearly an hour / saw the welcome
light of "A prospectors' camp fire and rode
ltowaFdit.
TRAILING A PEsKY INDIAN.
The camp proved to be a party Of
sAluif, good natured miners, who had
-bevn in this section and the Black Hills
for a number OF years. In answer 60 my
inquiries az to securing a place to put up
with them, one Of them saida
Wal. stranger, our Communications
..re, v-..r An,f I ra,kAn 20 800, Artr
stan II we kin
After eating Q supper Of jerked beef.
hard tack and coffee the boys began to
tell stories Of their experiences in the
days OF the frontier. One Of them, who
-wcnt by the uame Of Buckskin Jack.
said:
'tWal, boys, this ere rush makes a fell
.lersthink Of the early days of the Black
Hills. The Indians wur purity goil
burned mad and wur maxim it middlin
slively for the boys. Their wuz eight in
.our party when we struck camp in a
,gulch in the west part of the Hills. The
first night we thot it would be a purity
good plan to set a guard We drew cuts
tbsr see who would be lected, an Of
course ! wuz ther lucky man.
"As we wur not bothered that night
an had saw no signs Of any of the pesky
Indians we did not set any guard the
next night. We all turned in purity
early an as we wuZ all purity tired wuz
soon asleep. Bout 10 o'clock, as near as
4 could reckon. / WIZ walked by a noise
as IL some one wuz movin bout Their
camp. | got up purity easy an took a
III. s.-l A La I 49, ,oaI -....
thin movin'. | thot | wouldn't 'sturb
the boys until | foun' out what the rack
ct wuz An takin' my rife, l walked
ttO'ards the place whur | seed the thing
;movin'. an as Their wuz only one,
lth2t. ! would foler him IN fine out whal
ther camp wuz. so that we could come
down ON them an sterminate ther whole
outfit
oval, ter make a long story short,
ifollored Their pesky Indian. as ] thot. fun
bout an hour. an ! found myself in the
cinity Of our camp again, an I'll be golI
burned If won't be kicked into the
middle Of ,next summer il my Indian
diInt turn out to be one Of our boys
who WIZ. a-walkin in his sleep wuz
ptaty,nad. but sneaked inter my blan.
ket. an hev never sed a word bout il
until ter-night."
a DRIVES TEE " sHEBANG.
"Wal. | gass it wuz a purity good thing
that you didn't cay anything bout it or
else you'd never heard the last of it.
said Wild Dan, 'but | CESS I'll tell yer q
,little 'sperience | had in Cheyenne in '68
A lot of us boys came in from the
range ter blow oursel's an paint the town
red an | gass we did il in fine style
was paralyzed fur bout two days. an
-when | finly tumbled ter myself | founC
wuz busted an didn't hev a penny an
that | would hev ter go back on thu
range fur six months, an u kickin
myself fur bein' such q chump JUS
then saw a crowd of fellers goin' to'ard
Their Cheynne and Deadwood stage oriic,
an | Joined Their crowd The stage WI
drawn up before the orfice an the sii
lAsEcDs were a chawing her bit an
wautin ter be off The driver of tn
stage he'd refused ter go. as ther roai
agents an Inguns he'd stopped an rohbe'
every stage fur a week. an not a drive
sever turned up ter tell how ii wuz done
Their stage agent wuz wild. As the
ywuz the Wells Fargo treasure box an 81.
passengers tibet wanted ter go thro' t
DeadwOOd he offered $500 ter the ma
hat would drive the stage thro' to Dead
wood
Il thot ter myself, Dan, old boy
here's your chance. an ] stepped on
from Their crowd and SEE. Say. mister
Wild Dams the man tibet kin take We
old shehang thro' ter DeadwOod. Wit
that I jumped inter the. boot and yelled
Get in here, you fellers thets goinl
with me-. an the agent an six feller
pumped inter the coach picked u
tilrr lines, cracked the whip an we wa
nfl ON our Journey just as we starte,
some one hOliered Three cheers 70
brave Dan. an they wuz given with
skill
Things went all right until we struc|
Deadman'a Gulch. when out from bC
hind snme trees twelve men jumped
lgith rifles pointed at as, an ordered N
Ter halt.
Not by a burned site. SEE l.
An gave Their horses a cut wit
rhei whip. an pickin up my repeatin.
minned up on them. an In les
20 nkes ter tell il siX rual
.U-f I hpti NOT lrr.
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