Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-07-06
THE Way
OF
A MAN
BY EMERSON HoUGH
i
Copyright. ISg7. By Ii. outiss psbHshIsr
Company
cepyhsht, Isg7. BY the Ou.isr PubHshIsr
Company
CHAPTER XII.
Fersakina All Others.


ms near TO the historic forks
OF the Platte where thai
shallow stream stretches out
two arms. one running to the noun
tains far to the south. the other still
reaching westward for a time. Be
tween these two ran the Oregon trail
pointing the way to the Pacific. and
on this trail. somewhere to rhe west
lay Laramie. Before US now lay two
alternatives. We could 90 up the
beaten road to Laramie or we could
cross here and take an old trail on the
north side of the river for time,
Auberry thought this latter would give
better feed and water and perhaps be
safer as to Indians. so we held little
council over it.
The Platte even here was a wide.
treacherous stream. It's sandy bottom
continuously shifting At night the
melted foods from the mountains came
down and rendered II deeper than dur
ing the day. when for the most part IL
was scarcely more than knee deep. Yet
here and there at any time undiscover-
able TO the eye. were watery pitfalls
where the sand was washed out. and
in places there was shifting ouicksand.
dangerous for man or animal.
We resorted to the old plains make
shift Of calkinR the wagon bodies and
turning them into boats. Il being
thought probable that two or three
DAYS would he. required to make the
crossing IN this way By noon of the
f6ilowfna day our rude, boats were
r9.idy. anal Our work sberana4, 4,ess
waeluot yer strong enough to be
of much sssIstafceg1so A sat on the
bdhk watching The busy scene. Our
men were stripped toEthe skin: some Of
tlf m0untsiIheers brown almost a. In
d|lins FOR efeh I'M those days white
hIihters oifth rode with no covering
hit fhe hlankef and not that when the
WIN was warm. They were now n.
now ont OF the wnter. Istraini1g at the
.iiIes which sieAlipd Ithe rude. boxes
thaf bore our eoodss pulling at the
heads of'the horses and mules shout
iIlE. stead fing. encouraging. always
teftinR Toward Il took them nearly
fh hour TO make the frxt crossing,
Ind nrese6fit ~. cS,,,d SEQ tba .f,re OF
fbelf farther ~ mn povs soccnnled by
SOM. cf fhnSs not engaged In fhe work
Al sat Tins was ,oIned NV Mandy
ncs,ovprn -D,d Won see INV how.
1ndv Jackson p she asked. HE went
ntrosf with the first buuch-nary
etifcb OF clothes ON 70 him. has
lancs-l certainly has hopes-that
Andrew jackson N KIN n man some
,lme vit. and like enough itlI be right
soon
cove mv assant 70 th,s am,ahle
hone and presently Mandy went ON.
eRnt say man. ron and me- has got
~ ret that girl adrost somehow be-
tween ms. You know. her and me and
sometimes thar Enrlishman travels
along in the amberianch. She's allow
~ n me ouiet thnt when the time
s,,,oa FOR her IN IN acrost she'd ruther
t.a, and me went along. She's all
r>sav now A. Won airrs
..very good" said I. .well 20 now.
They've got Gre there and are cook.
,,,S / sunpose.-
We three. ali mounted. met at the
hank Taking the girl between us,
Nandy and / started. and the three
horses .plunged down the bank. AS II
rhanced. we struck deep channef at
ihp send of. and the horses were at
ence separated. The girl was swept
ont OF her saddle. but before could
render any assistance she called out
MT TO be alarmed. | saw that she
WINS swimming. down stream from the
horse. with one hand on the pommel.
without much concern. she reached
roofing on the bar at which the horse
scrambled up.
..Now I'm good and wet" laughed
she 1T won't make any difference
sfter this. see now how the squaws