Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-08-22
In TIE GOLD COUNTRY.
AN OLD MINER TALKS or THE EARLY
DAYS IN THE BLACK HILLS.

An Interesting Talk oser canp FIrrs
Buckskfn Jacks Hunt for the Isaiss-
How wild Dan Brought In cosch
Load Of Dead Passengers
As / was travelling through Colorado
and Montana on a trip for fny health
struck the town OF Big Sandy. n r
The little city was all excitement over
the reported discovery Of gold and silver
In the Sweet Grass hills, distance Of
sixty miles northwest Of Big Sandy. and
the town was filled with prospectors Of
all descriptions, from the old timer Of
40 to the youth fresh from the east ID
eearch Of his fortune, all bound for the
new gold and silver fields
Az had plenty Of time on my hands
and wanted a little excitement, joined
q prospecting party. We started for the
promised land the next day. aad on the
second day our 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 Ia which to
pass the night After riding haphazard
for nearly an hour ! saw the welcome
light Of a prospectors camp fire and rode
toward IL
TRAILING PEsK7 INDIAN.
The camp proved to be party Of
bluff, good natured miners, who had
been In this section and the BLACK Hills
| for number Of years In answer TO my
| inquiries as to securing place to put m
| with them, one OF them said:
| "WaI, stranger, our Communications
are purity poor. but reckon II you kin
stan it we kin
After eating 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
went by the uame Of Buckskin Jack
/ said:
/ wal. boys. this ere rush makes fei-
Ter think of the early days Of the Black
Hills. The Indians wur purity COLL
burned mad and wur maxim it middlin'
lively for the boys. Their WIZ eight in
our party when we struck camp in a
guich in the west part Of the Hills. The
first night we thot it would be purity
good plan to set guard We drew cuts
ter see who would be Iected. 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 WIZ
soon asleep Bout 10 o'clock. as near as
| could reckon, wuz walked by a noise
as If some one wuz movin bout Their
camp. l got up purity easy an took a
look round Al last thot seed some
thin movin' | thot wouldn't 'sturt
the boys until foun' out what the rack
ct wuz An takin' my rife, | walked
to'ards the place whur seed the thing
movin', an as ther wuz only one,
thot | would foller him an fine out whal
Their camp wuz, SO that we could come
down on them an sterminate Their whois
outfit.
"Wal, ter make long story short,
follored Their pesky Indian, as thot. flu
bout an hour. an found myself in tn,
! 'cinity of our camp again, an I'll be gol
burned if won't be kicked into thu
, middle of next summer if my Indian
didn't turn out to be one of our boy
WI WIZ d-8dlhltl III Ills oiccD j W u
purity mad, but sneaked inter my blan
: ket, an hev never sed a word bout
until ter-night-"
DAN DRIVES THE OLD sHEBAHG.
"WaI, gass it wuz &purty good thin
that you didn't say anything bout it o
: else you'd never heard the last of it,
: said Wild Dan, "but CESS I'll tell yer
little 'sperience had in Cheynne in SO.
"A lot of US boys came in from tn
range ter blow oursel's an paint the tow
: red, an gass we did it in fine style.
: was paralyzed fur bout two days, ar
: when | finly tumbled ter myself foun
wuz busted an didn't hev penny ar
: that | would hev ter go back on tn
: range fur six months, an wuz kickir
= myself fur bein' such chump. Jus
then saw crowd of fellers goin to'ard
Their Cheynne and Deadwood stage orfic
an Joined Their crowd The stage WI
drawn up before the orfice an the ST
!. broncos were a chawing Their bit an
: wantin' ter be off The driver of tn
stage he'd refused ter go. as Their roa
: agents an Inguns he'd stopped an robbie
:. every stage fur week. an not drive
= ever turned up ter tell how it wuz dom
u Their stage agent wuz wild. AS the
Is wuz the Wells Fargo treasure box an 81
r passengers tibet wanted ter go thro' |
"a Deadwood he offered $500 ter the ma
d that would drive the stage thro' to Deat
wood.
y II tho't ter myself, Dan, old DO,
: here's your chance, an stepped OF
: from ther crowd and SEE, Say, miste
&c Wild Dams the man tibet kin take W
D old shebang thro' ter Deadwood.' Wit
)s that jumped inter the boot and yelle,
S, Get in here, you fellers thet's goin
re with me, an the agent an six fellel
Is Jumped inter the coach. | picked L
,f Their lines, cracked the whip an we WI
70 off on our journey. Just as we starte
= some one hollered, Three cheers fl
y brave Dan, an they wuz given with
III will
he Things went all right until we struc
~ Deadmans Gulch, when out from b
hind some trees twelve men jumps
j, with rifles pointed at us, an ordered n
;, ter halt.
Z, "'Not by burned site, SEE l.
VI "An' gave Their horses cut wit
u Their whip, an pickin' up my repeatir
rifle | opened up on them, an in lie
te time than it takes ter tell it six ros
s. agents he'd bit the dust. he'd not bee
he hurt, but my hat he'd been shot off n m
he'd.
10 II picked up my lines an tried t
~ stop Their horses, but there wuz no stt
~ ter them, an they run until they puH'
We up in front of Their orfice in Deadwoo
al 1-l,a- onapa2 thor rtoua door tla