The sun., 1893-12-17
JUMPED BY THE SIOUX.
HlRD LICK or AN EARLY ExPLoR-
ING PLRTF IN THE YELLoWs1ONE
Gouriey's Ruu for Life-Ths qus.tior re
aeEan 10 Ask That Morning Was Faded
Twenty.etUht Years Later IN snttforpt,


Hegan 20 Ask That Morning Was Faded
, Twenty-etght Years Later IN CnitforuIr
My story begins back at Bozeman in '04. "
, said the well-known Spirituallst. James Gour-
ley, at the Montana Club. "Bozeman was then
atown where things went on a run-a regular
bird with the feathers on. 1t was a day all
night In the night time as the poet. Cy War.
man. wrote about Creede. The streets were
filled with bull teams. fighting freighters,
stampeders. and strangers from every corner
OF the country The gambling houses never
stopped to clean the bark from the floor. and
on every corner you would see groups Of men
listening TO some orator who had discovered a
new gulch. Everybody had money and blew
1t. because he expected to have loads OF It be-
fore spring.
Well. one day In the Gold Exchange hap
pened to save young fellow named Wise
man from row. and we struck up an ac-
ouaintance. He had been sent out 10y the
Government to explore an unknown region
now known as the Yellowstone Park and had
come to Bozeman to start the expedition. lie
wanted me to make the outfit. agreeing to nav
Tor everything and let me boss the train Mt n
salary OF $500 in gold month. l put up the
figure because know we were going TO have
trouble with the Sioux Then | picked out
three good men all devil-may-care fellows
who would fight to the line. There was Henry
Maloney. young fellow who had gone wild
In the East, and whose people paid him sal
ary to keep away from home; q freiChter
called Right Side" Jack because when
drunk he was always claiming to be right side
up and Brule who had come down the spring
before from the Red River country and was n
rattng good cook.
| We fitted out two wagons. loaded with tho
best Of everything that Uncle Sans money
| would buy. calculating to live well any how
even II nobody got back alive. We weren't
thinking much about that but knew IL was
risky business. The boys gave us good
send of at the Gold Exchange corner and of
| we started. going down the valley toward the
Yellowstone. which we expected to follow
south until we reached the Reyser country.
Nobody in the crowd knew much about those
| geysers then. Two years before a trapper
SAID ne come from there after having fight
| with Indians. but so far as we know he was
| the only white man that had ever been
there. 1 recolect his telling that these
geysers was big streams 4 that come
from hell and. according to what
the Sioux Indians said. the water boiled only
when the devil was getting ready to cook the
Cheyennes. Then he said. besides. that there
was big hole when he looked down and seen
big bars Of gold all stamped. but we thought
he was crazy or lying and didn't pay much at
tention to him. l remember Wiseman-we
called him tine Professor saying that IL
wouldn't surprise him much to find gold. see-
ing that the country had been sort OF torn to
pieces by earthquakes. and of course that set
us all on an edge and kept us thinking how wo
would 60 back home and cut q figure with
Vanderbilt and the rest OF them.
Nothing occurred m uch to disturb us for the |
first week out. The weather was flne for It
was In the fall OF the year and the travel |
ling was good for country where thore were |
no trails. We found good game along the |
Yellowstone. which We struck and followed |
down. There were plenty OF fine antelope. |
which were mighty shy. And there was no |
end OF blnck-tailed deer mountain trout. and |
birds We didn't see no Indian signs |
ior ten days or in fact until We got along
trance to the park. Then one morning whenI
got up early to catch mess OF trout 10 break
to the west OF us about twenty % niles Ts,Gn and tH
see q long line of blue smoke curling up into
and clear. and could see the smoke lined out out
as clear cut as knife. This settled the Iuea-
the boys we must be on the dead open watch.
They all said they didn't care much and tried
that when the Indians there got hold OF a half
breed breed they cooked him alive the same as they
would would tlsh This Joke turned out to have
We travelled along during the day at slow
rate, Eight side Jack riding ahead OF the train
as to to watch M h out for signs. Sioux Indian. you
train. Ms don't iolioWHp ON crawl IL G wSFSp ot6sp
Indians. He goes ahead to meet you. and then
seems seem to rise right up out OF the ground and
on the prairie or in tho Queens drawing room.
We didn't see ANYTHING out Of the ordinary till
smoke appeared ahead instead OF on one side
OF us. but each on an opposite side OF the
Indians had gone ahead of us during the day.
/ Judged must be between the two ranges
That night we camped close to n big height
ting out the fires moved half mile from the
wagons to throw the Sioux off tho track. Ma
out any trouble and we started on. "''"- =
In the middle OF the day we got right into tho !
The nrst geyser we seen was, what they e'n% now t
call Old Faithful. but which the Professor 8
ii the time f at ySRn'ns as no% nosH
shooting the hot water high in the air-it | 4
sToand the he'll lava baSin All around % the ground 70 L
Was torn and broken until 1t looked Ike the
inees and crossed himself wRe the iss Tsst Ss hs Of
is stood around and listened TO a lecture from l
he Professor. We stood there maybe ten min t
:. :. Drop to the ground ,yelled face down "
Down they dropped. and then came another q
he boys, we're in for it now. How under tI
he sun them Indians got rifles don't know. =
'hape the fight was going TO take. There we b
we're in an open plat OF ground and nothing to s.
or some reason they didn't come. and when v
We got to our feet ana ready 20 fight not an Al
indian was in sight But that didu't stop US n
rom being scared. The Brul6 kept crossing :
himself until his buckskin shirt was white @
rom the marks OF his fingers which had heen o
,uried In the alkali dust. The Professor. 1 a
ecollect said: -
Damn you. GouTley. why didn't you tell us u
hese Indians had guns
When YOU get back to Washington YOU ask ~
he government where they got en- says l. =
. He will never get back says MalOneY. u
That was about the talk as near as recol- | 81
ect. After waiting half houT. maybe we | a
'ot back on our hands aud knees TO the Wag- -
ms, which We found all right because the n
hOts seemed to come from tho other side OF | Il
he range. Then We held a council OF war and | n
ectded for the night 10 move on into the open ~
Nc Of the canon. where We could see another al
mound OF rocks which would protect us. We "
iers never considering how g got out W
I the cursed place, only thinking about | Il"
safe place TO live from one hour 10 | bl
he other. Right alongside Of these rocks We II
1und two springs. one bubblIng hot water and ! N,
he other cold as ice, Both springs are now ! "
Tled out. That was the toughest out d, a ~
ood many tough nights ! have spent. We al
gain nut fires after Diqkatinns tn, !