Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1901-07-18

kingdom come, as the Indians were
probably waiting for us at the point
We should have passed long ago. l
made a wide detour from the trail as
We toiled up the mountain-very for
for they were ambushed for
US at the crossing of the trails between
two high tree-crowned buttes. If we
hard passed through that natural gate
none of US would have been left TO tell
about it. As we passed up the noun
tain to the left they got on to our
curves, and about 200 did some wild
target practice in our direction.
Strange to say, not man was hit.
Correspondent John Finertys horse
was shot, and he came up and Joined
me in leading the line. The horses
were inclined TO stampede at the first
fire, so at the beginning of the thick
timber | ordered the stock tied in a
bunch. The Indians tried in every way
TO draw our fire, but Sibley, at my sug-
gestion, ordered no firing unless they
charged right up to us, which is not
the way an Indian fights.
I'VE got to the timber at ten o'clock
in the morning, and we did not fire a
shot until three o'clock in the after
poon. Every man had his tree, and he
stuck to it closer than a brother. Early
in the day leather-lunged Sioux
yelled at me that he knew Bat and my
self were there, and they were going to
have great fun with particularly
me. / knew what that meant without
map, SO ! told every soldier to save a
good cartridge for himself before sur
rendering to the fiendish tortures, for
the Sioux have very original methods
of making a man die by the most pain
full process possible.
along about the middle of the after
noon my red friends who were wait
ing to entertain ne began to get very
gay and were growing bolder every
minute. They had killed all our horses
but five, and thought L was impossible
for us to get away in fact, heard
them say SO quite frequently IN the
gutteral language Of the Cheyennes.
White Antelope and a band OF Chey-
ennes had joined the war party and
this chief began riding closer and
closer 10 our trees. Finally he and an
other chief. who was riding about five
yards behind him, came into fairly
good range. ! could see the color q his
eyes as he came toward me. | pulled
the trigger of my rifle and both IN
dams went down together as a result
of the single shot. 1t was the trst
shot from our party, and the double
tragedy confused the Indians. Then
our whole outfit poured in a withering
volley. and l told sibley it was our
time to take advantage of their con-
fusion and get through their line back
to the gully. ] waited until they were
All fairly started back through the
heavy timber. then, taking the lariat
from the saddle Of my dead horse, ] fol-
lowed
at was a mile from where we made
our stand to the main fork OF the
Tongue river. and the woods were tull
az terrible windfalls and il was aw-
fully hard travelling. The first 200
Yards the men had TO simply squirm
their way through the timber and keep
very low. The savages had eompar-
atiyelv thin line at our rear, as they
lnew the character Of the country and
Thought we would be helpless without
our horses.
"When I reioined the men sent BAT
in the lead and covered the rear,
The soldiers took off their boots ana
stenpeo from rock TO rock in order TO
leave our trail as blind as possible.
About dark a heavy rainstorm' win
muoh wind. came up and soon drowned
ont the firing that our foes kept up on
our camp. Our policy Of holding our
Gre so fooled them that they Gid not
rpsb our camp until the following
morning. a fact that ! learned later
ire storm was wild and terrible We
were 6renehed and the timber began
10 fan all about us, We kept IN a ter
ritorv where horses could not travel
Co. reasons Of our own, and we hit an
rrblazed trail over the mountains ior
tbe following As hours without
moutbful to eat Sometimes the SOUR.
rel path was SO steep that Bat ana
had 10 pull the soldiers up over Inc
rocks with our lassoes.
..Tbe following morning at three
o'clock We forded Goose creek. the cold
water coming up to our armpits. aEd
a. DAYLIGHT fell in with a scouting
marty Of the Second cavalry Then We
Vent back over the trail and picked ~
two OF our exhausted soldiers that hae
given up. We had been under ho'
fre nearly ten hours, had Travelled p
miles over terribly rough mountain
country. and during al that time had
not n loved the luxury OF a ration. as
we we're forced to abandon everything
When he Indians sighted rs, except
o1r hone and our ammunition. Yet We
never lost a man.
poor little Rat! he was in ne
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