The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-18

u~ceu>orily take me 20 the black Hills. hut
I wes youmG when the frat gold excite
nsens Swept over thu country, and hcine
somewhas sore over tie fact that l had
lately been defeated for the ONCE al
county surveyor. I rcsolvsd to make one of
many h went toward the land at the
hostile Sioux.
Dice Braker ana Ned Chandler kept me
good fellows both i'm their way.
although Dice and 1 had never been the
hest OF friends. I did not mind this, how
ever, for in the hunt for gold ! believed
DICE would prove n most efficient pard.
since he was u man of great determina-
ton. and had roughed il i'm the lumber
woods for many seasons. In fact Dice
was a fighter from sway back" just sucha
comradc as such pcaceablc fellows as Ned
and myself could tic tn in an
emergency.
h getting tn the hills was no pleasant
affair.", although "a certain excitement
about it forbade ones becoming home
sick, AS many of the poor fellows did
after ward when the glanior had worn
away and lays of hardship and poverty
had come, such days as not one of us
had dreamed of when we left our COM
Portable homes i'm the Wolverine state tai
try the perils Of the new Eldorado.
1t was in the spring of the year that we
set out. At Chicago we secured AN outfit,
waiting until we reached cheyenne before
sec urinG the mustangs which we had been
equippaRe. Ned and I were good horse-
men. hut Dice WAS unused to the saddle.
and the long ride from Cheyenne To the
.ni.so~r',,.. : J. mi hfiJ ~ "a m;serahis. liz
tie rat that unseated him IL dozen ti.ues
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ing of a score OF fortune seekers. and
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ride in your youth said = man whH had
unrshis, that Vl.. mr. sI,aUussI cnlnr
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