Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-11-02
SPORTSMAN'S VIEW OF NORTH
DAKOTA.
Editor Of Sports Afield Continues His
Impressions OF the Hunting Grounds
in North Dakota,


sketches of North Dakota, as viewed
with the eye of the sportsman. In
his last issue he says:
Glendive is the next important
town after leaving Miles City. 1t is
in the midst of a fine hunting field.
including grouse, ducks and rife
game. Then come Medora in the cen
ter of the famous Bad Lands. North
OF the train is seer the abattoir. built
by the versatile Marquis de Mores
with the Idea of revolutionizing the
cattle business as at present con
Quoted. South of us on a gentle en-
ince, we note the picturesque resi-
dence where the marquis and his wife
were wont to give lavish entertain
ments
Here, in the valley of the little Mis-
sour River, which goes brawling and
dancing past Medora, President Roose-
welt lived, if | am not mistaken, the
very %happiest days of his life.
AT Dickinson (our first stop in
North Dakota) Sports Aield has so
many friends that our visit partook
somewhat of the nature of a home
coming at the old homestead. Sports
men here have good use for both
shotgun and ri1e-the %sharp-tailed
grouse being abundant %hereabouts
and at Gladstone, a few miles farther
east; while good deer shooting is to
be had in the Bad Lands country.
some thirty miles to the westward.
In the court house at Dickinson |
met a veteran of the civil wal in the
person of n of the county officials.
He had charged with Pickett up the
slope to the bloody angle at Gettys-
burg, and most interesting was it to
hear him tell "of the brave days when
| was 21.'
Our next stop is Mandan, on the
west bank of the Missouri-a thriving
city with a fine future before it. South
Ni"ludH d ways Is SldHulnS ROCK
Indian Agency, while to the north is
the Fort Berthold reservation. AL
though bitter enemies in the long ago
the Sioux of Standing Rock Agency.
and the Mandans. Rees and Grosven-
tres of Fort Berthold now visit back
and forth every year-hundreds of
Sioux families passing through Man
dan n Bismarck on their way north
to Fort Berthold. during the time of
our visit. The Mandans have always
been of a rather gentle nature-at
least when compared with the Sioux
treated the explorers Lewis and Clark
with genuine kindness. AT Mandan
is the home and workshop of ]. D..
Allen, one of the most talented of
taXidermists and a man whose know
ledge of Indian folklore is as thor
ought as it is entertaining. We
found Mr.. Allen at work in his atel-
l Ter. surrounded by game heads of all
4 sorts; after which he showed us
2 through two large upper floors fairly
crowded with all sorts of mounted
bird life as we'll as the four-footed
collection of goods of original Indian
: manufacture. it seems to me. is the
best in tho northwest
The bottom lands on both sides OF
the Missouri are covered with a dense
growth of bushes and small trees. az
fording fine feeding grounds for the
white tailed deer. which are very
abundant hereabouts-several having
been shot last winter almost within
the city limits of Mandan. The state
acted wisely in shortening the open
season for deer to but twenty days
Nov. 10 to Dec. u and in limiting each
hunters bag to a total of five. Though
it is not generally known the sports
men of Mandan n Bismarck have
as fine deer shooting as is to be en-
joyed anywhere.
This country abounds in Indian
stories-One of the best | ever heard
being c. F. Ellis account of the death
of Sitting Bull, who was shot stimuli
%taneously by Red Bull and Red Toma-
hawk. while the two latter were serv-
ing as Indian police. Red Bull was
killed the very next instant, but Red
Tomahawk yet lives to tell the tale.
and as Mr.. Ellis has gone on several
hunting trips with him, he was able to
secure a vivid mental photograph of
the old chiefs arrest and the result
tant scrimmage--a picture which, we
trust. he will unroll for the benefit
of the entire Sports Afeld family.
On our arrival at Bismarck. we
found the hotel lobby overlooking with
hunters paraphernalia and the por-
ter's quarters a miniature bench-show