The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-29

Dakota known as the Bdd BanuS aIt
 several leathery- faced men who mads the acquaintance of Theodore Roosevelt in the West and afterward followed him up the hill at San Juan. Among others of these loose hmbed and cool-eved ex-
 rough riders is Fred Herrig, who was al one time a cowboy on Roosevelts Elk
 horn range. Herlig belonged to TrooI K of the Rough Riders. He was asked not long ago if he had ever hunted with
 Hunted with himT' was the exstroop-
 ar's reply Should say I have-on nis Dakota ranch at Elkhorn and along the hills of San Juan. It was more fun out in the Bad Lands than it was In Cuba;
 The Colonel, as we call him now, had
 two ranches when I first knew him 10
 the Bad. Lands, the Elkhoru and tns
 Chimney Butte. he named em. They lay on a Government range along the Little
 Missouri River, just south of Medora. There was plenty of big game when ne first went out to that country in 1883. and
 everybody sized him up for a grassy tell derfoot s .x.ar th. Marquis De Mores' wife, a New Iorh ladyl in front of Joe Ferris store. tnA. d lot of us planned little surprise TOT
 Mir. Roosevelt. He looked Ike oo n,n aud
 I believe he was only little past ~. anu
 what with his eyeglasses and his 1nee
 brooches and his little brown mustacne' he did look too nice for anything;
 While he was in Joe Ferris Ouyh.s yt.. ?
 n.
 ward worked along with me on the rancn' and a cowboy named Merrtneid, unsaod
 Gled Roc sevelts pony, led mn ol Ils. sLao
 put the saddle and bridle on q pronvmso ass that was a dead ringer for his mount;
 We knew all about that bronch2. Tor ne u
 already thrown Hellrcaring Bill yones once that morning. So we kinder sidieo off to see the fun .x ,ha
 shop and started to mount. lie Was lS
 nearsighted, but lie couldn't nave toiu those cayuses apart. anyway; HE a .har cho let him get into the saddle ana slea inc heast punched his feet ana numpeu
 his hack and Roosevelt vent on, as easy as vou please. Nobody said anything ekA eeka
 cert Toe Ferris, who came out or ene door and asked if he was hurt. ~S mn he went again. But the White Faceo f2ia%that's what we called the broncno didn't wait for him to get nls nshs sS foot in the feathers this tms oc,OSe o.,nr fis s head. It was the all-1redest Joit ! eyer ssw RooseyeIt turned a somersault ana linen sat down so hard his gi9sses prons: .'Will Dow and ,as,nu went to so hgbe he couldn move. Roosevelt didn't notice any Q. Vs, . IIe just looked kinder surpTiseo as ne scrambled up-the dust was four incnes thick in the ro;S rosd. hs n and 0S he iinped into
 "T I've thought he'd had enough of M and were wondering how We cs cCulu change nags again: when ,a,r sre If % sIasses Sa.d t,shed out Of his hand bag, ana hiast my eyes if he didn't Jump on Lns kids back again ana ., sG h,nu guifii Eli he'd gct botr feet in the stirrups and good GE'p ".sr Then srS maybe % the Kid din't start down he road lickety. split, cJc,Sre m a oS' oS dust. There were only about eleven innaDlsamss a... In the town then and It wash iouH uHFs,,tn- Wsa tIi the news got out that the W1ns Faced Kid was murdering tender1oot' vVs held a mass meeting in front or Fer ris's store and when the overianu tEall rom the East pulled in ana anoltS. en., 1s,s tenderfoot got on ana caassS1 ho svnS was Dr. Lambert and he came from NeW @ York we said as how his 1rieno' MT Roosevelt, was just about needing ooc- Lori ..Est ahI bepore we could explain, lickety split through the dust came the Wnite- W.,' ISace Kid. and there ca his back, WiI,n WiIn all his teeth showing. was tne ooSIIr h,s friend. Roosevelt. When he slapped his ,eeners on pr. Lambert he let out a vhoon that couldn't have been beat oy any cowboy on the Little Missouri
 I've took a shine to him from tnat White Face Kid at one trial and holier ike that was the man for our money except that we didn't have any money intlI we'd hired out to RooseyeIt;
 .ross, But when Dr. Lambert came out for some shooting the boys sent word TOT me to scome down and hunt Witn em ~ the Elkhorr ranch. That was as pretl.sy a place as you ever saw, right on tne bank of the Little Missouri, with wide valley on the other side and then range of sherp cliffs that out on the view. The Colonel cwns 1t yet. ana ,Ia the s;y nCys He owns the Chimney Butte ranch, too, but the house on the Elkhorns the best. 4. work for the Colonel when pr. Lambert came out in September, 1893. You see, Bill had been Chief of Police In Bismarck, and he ano the Mayor had words one day, Bill pulled his gun; st ne eha WE Mavor SUo s5 he batted him oyer the head with the butt end of the pistol That ended tns argument But after that the Mayor saIo passed in his badge and came to Medora. And when we heard of the tendertoo! who had tanned White-Faced Kid. Bill aid he guess ed he was the kind Of man
 ''By the time I went there Bill was brennan of the Elkhorn ranch and Syl- 'ain Ferris, Joe's brother, was head cow ,oy. Bill and Sylvain had stayed sober
 III summer sos to be O K for the big Iunt. Doc Lambert mounted sorrel Joe, he Colonel straddled Muley, Bill rode I
 nd Ji min the army wagon. The Colonel aid 1t wasn't any fun to ride the Kid
 nd more, since he'd pull to harness, Besides he hadn't ever quite forgiven the <Id for bucking him so hard that he lost . new hunting knife that day at Medora. Dur third day out we saw antelope.
 " There's a big bull, but he's 500 yards ,ff, said Bill Jones when We first caught light of the game. But the doctor hadn't sot used to the country where distances ire so deceiving. In that high, dry air
 he prong horn didn't look to New York nan farther off than across Madison Souare. You see, l can talk town now ike a tenderfoot since l got to be a Ioldier and came East.
 ''As I was saying. the doctor paid no Intention when Bill said the bull was 6oV ards of, but just blazed away with his 5-90: he missed the antelope by 150 yards, hot that far short of him..
 Then the doctor played Fourth of July with the critter. shooting a half-dozen sh machine guns banged at us on Kettle lill He didn't hit the beast. either, which was not strange at the distance, ut his fusilade turned the game off
 And l never saw a prettier piece of Vork In my life than he did then with his fife. It was just the same caliber as the loctor's, and when the Colonel-I can't lelp calling him that, though war was he last thing any of us expected then ,uIled the trigger twice, at 325 yards. the ull keeled over. with one ball through his ide and the other through his chest.
 T saw the Colonel get a fine sheep one lay. He and Bill and I were sitting on he porch, taking it easy, when bill said: 1 saw a sheep's track on that butte yes erday,' pointing to the range right in ront of us, across the valley. A Rocky sheep is about the rarest game Ve get out there.
 "Bin had no more than got the words ut of his mouth when something poked l ts head up over the edge of the cliff.