The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-12-17
PIONEER STORIES.
htersstiug "reminiscences Related By
Daniel 3. Fore, Esq, Of Ills Ex.
perienceS in the Far West.

Fore, ESq., anu Ills uduRnJer MISS
Katie, removed from the Fore
homestead near Knobsville
last spring to their comfortable
home at the northern end of Sec
ondStreet, McConnellsburg. Sit
ting at big plate glass window
| in his new home, where he has
an uninterrupted view of the
Cove almost up to his boyhood
home, Mr.. Fore takes pleasure in
entertaining friends with stories
Of his experience in western
states and in Mexico between the
year 1S47 and the outbreak of the
Civil War. These stories are of
tines and conditions that will
never again be witnessed by men
of this, or Of a future, genera
ton.
Leaving home in March 1847,
when he was twenty years of
age, Mr.. Fore made his way to
Iowa where his brother Jacob
then lived. Having sent his
trunk by wagon to Pittsburgh,
Nr. Fore started out afoot after
it. There was much snow on the
ground. At Sixmile Crossing,
ast Of Everett, he fell in with a
Mormon missionary who was al
% "hoofng it" to Pittsburgh.
logether they walked to Green's
arg 104 miles westward from
hae. The two travellers separa-
I'd at Greensburg, Mr.. Fore TAX
ng stage to Pittsburgh. In that
dg he saw two companies of SOL
derS from Franklin, Fulton and
Adford counties take boat down
he river for Mexico. By the
ane means, Mr.. Fore went down
be Ohio and up the Mississippi
Shis destination in Iowa. Dur
ng the next twelve years Mr..
Tore made seven trips to Iowa,
nd one to the Pacific coast, in
hding a trip across Mexico to
VEa Cruz where only two weeks
70 Uncle Sam withdrew a fleet
dbattleships which he had sent
Athat point over year ago to
Alp make Mexicans 'be good"
Mr.. Fore has kindly consented
hpermit the NEWS to publish in
tdents of his travels-the first
nstallment of which follows:
On one occasion, while he and
Iparty were on their way to
be Pacific coast, using oxen to
raw the wagons, their attention
'T attracted to a dark line on
De horizon behind them. For
Sne time it was not possible to
SOunt for it. Some of the par
thought it might be black
SoadS rolling up in advance of
Ne Of those storms that some
mes sweep the plains. What
Yer it was it seemed to be NOV
'g in their direction. The black
NE was many miles long. In
SurSe of time the party discov-
sed that it was an immense herd
lOuffaloes. They were not ad-
lacing at a walk, but were bear
y down upon the party at
aakneck speed. The yearlings
'ere in advance, and, as if to
Now their contempt for the "old
ekS," slowness, they scampered
pead, now sidewise, now BAN
slng their mates to play at but,
ag' just as though they had to
sOmething to put in the time
nile the older members of the
m came on. Seeing that the
s'ty would be struck by about
ecenter of the front of the
sd, some rapid planning had to
done to avoid death and the
'Rr destruction of their OK
ans and provisions. Quickly
possible, the teams wereplacec
e IN front of the other, with
oxen headed in the direction
Which the buff'aloes were run
g One of the men thought
might cause the herd to oper
zap in their ranks by running
sx and waving his hat at them
YIN a moment he was running
dear life for the rear wagor
threw himself under it jus
me forornoct animal raqchp(