The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-06

because the shoshones afterward got decidedly the
upper-hand Of him in the battle of Pit river.
Pit river is away down toward the California line.
Crook had hy u Warner The
Shoshones managed to lead him their way. They
LILA t- y, 49, 49, -, oAs ts o'g -e@l IlsA
WIea IN me river valley On TOP OF these the Indians
established themselves. The place was natural for
Bet your life it was" again broke in the old scout
this time taking the lead "A billy goat couldn't o.
And when the Injuns got into their Of 'ea
was wuth ten Of our men The red devils had jus
pocket Ii was a reg'ler death trap.
This cliff was about 500 yards long. In
of the Gift at The southeast corner vas two iitrIr
cliffs with walls thirty forty feet high. straight up
shoshones built their fors-one on the east 9ob and
Two on the west knob They got into the forts the
east knob and laid for us.
We'll did you go after them?" I asked This was
Go after EN-? Yes. But the wrong way crook.
the dam fool put scouts. who knew how to scrap
the Injun. 400 yards away a bluff-away behind EN-
He drew his own men up in lne-a he'll of a thing to
do when you fight Injuns amt it, hajor2 That was
jus what the Injuns had been layin' for. and they
commenced cracBin away and droppin' Crooks men.
Then ne took a tumble and broke up his ranks. They
want much done the rest of the day-just a little
sharp shootin.
THAT night scouts scrambled over the lava bed
and got up cOst The reglers come up. too. All night
long we could hear the Injuns rOn rocks aroun and
and doin' jus what they wanted Tt was light
min and thUnderin all night
AT daybrea1 all in a hundred feet o. the
fort Jus as the sun rose we heard the word For
ward! We hadn't moren got up good before hang
went the Injuns. They dropped eight of But the
rest kept right The sergeant of company y was
the first mount the wall But he hadn't moren got
to the top before the Injuns pumped him.
the Injuns could JUS a-lOaded fas' nough they'd a
plugged US all But when they comm. out they
scOOted. Well, sir. couldn't how they get
out, but away they scrambled through the cracks
them lava rocks, jus like lizards
First thing we knOWed Mr.. ShOshOne IN the
west fort cracon at again. But they hadn't been
shootin long before they quit didn't go the
second fort We lost too many gettin the had.
Rutonct in q while Injun would show hisseIf just
to kind o. on. That night could hear noise
--papCoses was cryin.
1.-THE devils had another trap us. They left
fort No. ,. We went and found it all empty They
wanted to follow EN- IL we'd done IL we'd all
q bin scalped The ShGshoncs had hid themselves in
cracks o the lava rocks. They jus pass we'd
all a had to gone through and they'd had one
of the boys went forward a scouting and they shot
him right through the heart. That the highest
trap got into. Crook certainly got licked
time The command went back TO Camp Warner with
their tails tucked
But the shoshones were finally overcome. weren't
they?7 I asked.
''WeH, they want exactly licked. They give up the
next summer. They'd been pretty hard couple
of years and had lost lots o. Crook had come
10 the Harvey country The chiefs of the ShO-
shones come in for pow-wow.
Crook to 'em- Have got less soldiers than
had two years ago2
=" You got more gun, one old chief says back
&c No not half as many tllcums (warriors). says
the chief
so the chiefs wanted peace Crook told -em put
down their and stay in the Maheur country
and he'd let 'em alone. And, sir them ShOshOnes
haven't raised racket since"