Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-03-30
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matter how fiercely the bullets rained
about him he would never lose his head,
and more than that, he never asked a
man. be he private or officer, to DO
something which he, Crook, wouldn
do himself. Many a night, upon this
very expedition into the Black HIS, L
saw him with a blanket thrown over his
shoulder sitting by the blazing camp
fire. his frame outlined against the dark
night. with a piece Of bacon on q spit
cooking II over the fire for his supper.
you can bet we didn't lose time In
getting ready to move into the Indian
country We were only part OF the
three different columns that were COM
ing at the redskins from three direc-
tions-namey, Crook, Custer and Terry.
We had as scouts Frank Gourard, who /
believe and know to be one OF the
greatest scouts that ever lived Bunalo
! Bill and Charley White, otherwise
! known as Buffalo Chips halt-Dreed'
/ Gourard was a Hawaiian and when
quite young his parents VINO hud
! moved out West, were killed by the
sioux. He was adopted by them and
! knew the language, believe, OF every
! tribe of Indians on the western plains,
| and as the boys used TO say, he could
| smell one a mile
I'VE picllod our way cautiously along,
seeing plenty OF signs of Indians, but
having no fights with them. one day a
scout came IN bringing the news Of
Clusters massacre, the news producing
great excitement among the men and
officers alike for, although we had
never served under him, everybody adj
mired and respected him az a man.
Cen Crook, seeing that the condition
Of affairs was critical began making
forced marches and / tell you II kept
us doughboys on the go.
while we were coming down Powder
river Cen Terry was coming from the
direction Of the Yellowstone, and 1t was
here a funny thing occurred. Both coll
umnS had an advance guard composed
Of Indian scouts, ours being Crows, and
believe Terry had some friendly
Creeks When our men saw Terry's
column come into view they wheeled
their ponies and, beating them furi-
ouslv with their rawhide thongs, came
gallopne back to us crying Heap
Sioux Heap Sioux not stopping until
they had reached the end Of the column
I'm the meantime Terry's scouts had al
so given the alarm and his men were
advancing rapidly
ne SHOUTS or tne scouts created
great excitement among the boys The
command Of 'deploy skrmishers'
was obeyed IN Il hurry, The
general accompanied by Gourard, /
rode rapidly ahead Gourard rec
ognized the approaching column |
through his glass as white men, and the |
feht was declared on. Upon the ar
rival Of Terry both he and Crook held |
long conference. and the report Of |
Clusters massacre was verified, / being |
raw recruit was naturally very anX- |
ious 10 hear something about the AFFAIR, |
and seeing an old sergeant near by, |
q skcd him about Il, From his statement |
of what he had learned Of the affair II
was a terrible battle, for where Clusters
body was found near his horse over
$50 empty cartridge shells were also
found. and although the bodies Of most
Of the men had been cut up In horrible
not a hair on the head Of the
brave general had been touched
while we were camping at this place
Nal Reno, with the remnant Of Clusters
old regiment the Seventh, arrived. They
were far from being In a good humor,
some Of them saying that If they had to
re-enllst they would stay until they had !