Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-11-29
CHAPTER II.-CoNTHUED.


All the long summer of the year after
his graduation, from mid-April until
November, he never once slept beneath
u wooden roof, and more often than
UGf the sky was his only canopy. That
suEnn1er, too, Jessie spent at home,
Pappoose with her most of the time,
and one year more would finish them
at the reliable old Ohio school. BY
6hat time Folsom's handsome new
home would be in readiness to receive
his daughter at Gate City. By that
rsisae, too, Marshall might hope to have
III leave and come in to Illinois to well
come his sister and gladden. his moth
4er's eyes. But until then, the boy had
said to himself, he'd stick to the field,
1ud the troop that had the toughest
work 10 do was the one that suited him,
and so it had happened that by the
second spring of his service in the regi-
Cneut no suhaltern was held in higher
esteem by senior officers or regarded
with more envy by the lazy ones among
the Juniors than the young graduate,
faZ those, too, were days in which grad
Iates were few and far between, except
X
IN the dead of winter the devious trail
Through the Medicine Bow range to
Ee1yun- Once already had he been
sent the long march to and from the
Big Horn, and when certain officers
were ordered to the mountains early in
the spring to locate the site of the new
post at Warrior Gap, Brooks troop, as
has been said, went along as escort and
Brooks caught mountain fever in the
bills, or some such ailment, and made
tSe home trip in the ambulance, leav-
iug lhe active command of &C. troop
ia his subaltern.
With the selection of the site Dean
had Dothing to do. Silently he looked
1R as Gae quartermaster, the engineer
'9ad \ staff officer from Omaha paced
cE certain lines, took shots with their
INSTRUMENTS at neighboring waters of
E{Ie fork Two companies of infantry,
fDent down from further posts along the
auorthern slopes of the range, had
stacked their arms and pitched their
dog tents" and vigilant vedettes and
seatries peered over every command
ing height and ridge to secure the in
certainly were from the Indian point
of view, for this was Indian Story
Land, the most priced, the most beauti-
aul, the most prolific in fish and game
I'm all the continent. Never had the red
nasz clung with such tenacity to any
seeGiOn of his hunting grounds as did
the northern Sioux to this, the north
and northeast watershed of the Big
Worn range. Old Indian fighters
+1n1aug the men shook their heads
'wtteEl the quartermaster selected
&eeet bench as the site on which to be-
gin the etockade that was to inclose
the otiieers' quarters and the barracks,
stareboslse a1d magazine, and omin-
ousty they glanced at one another and
then at the pine-skirted ridge that rose,
sharp and sudden, against the sky, not
4sla yards away, dominating the site en-
1ireiy.
Il shouldn't like the job of clearing
away the gang of Indians that might
seize that ridge" said Dean, when later
asked by the engineer what he thought
Of it, and Dean had twice by that time
been called upon to help hustle" In
dians out of threatening positions,
&neE anew whereof he spoke.
L shouldn't worry over things
you're never likely to have to do" said
the quartermaster, with sarcastic en-
TiIasis, and he was man who never
get tnd had to face foeman in the
Geld, and Dean said nothing more, but
felG right well he had no friend in
dai- Burleigh.
They left the infantry there to guard
the site and protect the gang of wood
choppers set to work at once, then
turned their faces homeward. They
1iad spent four days and nights at the