, 1889-04-25

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Buokskin Jacks Hunt for the Indian
How Wild Dan Brought In n Coach
Load Of Dead Passenger
As I was travelling through Colorado
and Montana on a trip for my health /
struck the town Of Big Sandy, M T.
n little city was all excitement over
h reported discovery Of gold and silver
In the Sweet Grass hills, a distance of
sixty miles northwest Of Big Sandy, and
the town was filed with prospectors of
all descriptions, from the old timer of
40 to the youth fresh from the east In
eearch of 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
prospecting party. We started for the
promised land h next day, and on the
second day out we were In sight Of the
East Buttes- l rode on In advance of
the party, and n 1t was getting lark l
was looking for some shelter in which to
pass the night After riding haphazard
for nearly an hour l saw the welcome
light of a p~rospectors' camp fire and rode
toward it
TRAILING A PEsKY INDIAN.
The camp proved to DO a party OF
bluff, good natured miners, who had
been In this section and the Black Hills
for a number ofyears. In answer to my
inquiries as TO securing n place to put up
with them, one of them said:
wal, stranger, our 'commodations
are purity poor, but I reckon II you kin
stan 1t we kin"
After eating a supper of jerked beef,
hard tack and coffee the boys began to
tell stories Of their experiences In the
days of tho frontier. One of them, who
went by the uame OF Buckskin Jack,
saidi
oval, boys, this ere rush makes n fell
Ter think of the early days of the Black
Hills. Tho Indians wur purity COLL
burned mad and wur maxim 1t middlin'
lively 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 1t would be a purity
good plan to set a guard We drew cuts
ter see who would DO 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 oil turned In purity
early an as we wuz all purity tired wuz
soon asleep. Bout 10 o'clock, as near as
i could reckon, / wuz walked by q noise
as IL some one wuz movin' bout Their
camp. i got up purity easy an took a
look round AT last / thot l seed some
thin movin'. / thot / wouldn't 'sturb
the boys until / foun' out what the rack
ct wuz- An takin' my rifle, / walked
TOO rda fha nlara whpr II oaa1 the thIn-
movin', an as Their wuz only one, /
thot l would foller him an fine out whnr
Their camp wuz, 30 that we could come
down on them an sterminate ther whole
outfit.
"Wnl, ter make a long story short, 1
foilored Their pesky Indian, as I thot, fur
bout an hour, an found myself In the
'cinity Of our camp again, an I'll be gon
burned II / won't be kicked into the
middle of next summer II my Indian
didn't turn out to DO one Of our boys
who wuz a-wnlkin' in his sleep. / wuz
purity mad, but / sneaked inter my blan-
ket, an hev never sed a word bout 1t
until ter-night-"
DAN DRIVES Il L 6HEBAEd.
wal, l gass 1t wuz a purity good thing
that you didn't say anything bout 1t or
else you'd never heard the last of It,"
said Wild Dan, but / CESS I'll tell yer a
little 'sperience I had In Cheynne In 'eS.
"a lot of us boys came In from the
range ter blow oursel's an paint the town
red. an l gass we did.it In fine style. L
was paralyzed fur bout w days, an
when l hnly tumbled ter myself / found
I wuz busted an didn't hev a penny an
that / would hev ter go back on the
range fur SIX months, an WIZ kcktn'
myself fur befn' such o chump. Just
then l saw a crowd Of fellers goin' to'ards
Their Cheynne and Deadwood stage ornce
an I Joined Their crowd The stage wuz
drawn up before the orfce an the six
broncos were a chawing ther bit an q
wantin' ter DO off. The driver of the
stage he'd refused ter go, as Their road
agents an Inguns he'd stopped an robbed
every stage fur a week, n not a driver
ever turned up ter tell how 1t wuz done.
Their stage agent wuz wild. AS Their
wuz the Wells Fargo treasure box an six
Passengers thct wanted ter go thro' to
Deadwood he offered $500 ter the mar
that would drive tho stage thro' to Dead
wood
Il tho't ter myself, Dan, old boy,
bere's your chance an / stepped out
" Ai1cA SAo"u hlAN bC[t Guy hllbbSIt
Wild Dams the man tibet kin take yer
old shebang thro' ter Deadwood.' With
that l jumped inter the boot and yelled,
Got In here, you fellers thet's going
with me- an the agent an six fellers
jumped inter the coach. 1 picked up
Their lines, cracked the whip an we wuz
of on our journey. Just as we started
= some one hollered, Three cheers for
brave Dan,' an they WIZ given with a
will
Things went all right until we struck
Deadman's Gulch, when out from be-
hind some trees twelve men jumped,
with rides pointed at US, an ordered me
ter halt
"'Not by n burned site,' sez I.
"An'I gave Their horses a cut with
ther whip, an pickin' up my repeating
rife 1 opened up on them, an In less
time than 1t takes ter tell 1t six road
agents he'd bit the dust / he'd not been
hurt, but my hat he'd been shot off'n my
he'd.
II picked up my lines an tried ter
stop Their horses, but there wuz no stop
ter them, an they run until they pulled