The chronicle=news., 1913-02-22
"reminiscences of
The Frontier Days
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was and give them run for their
money. there was plenty OF fighting
and no end OF hardship. Th. scrim-
mage at the Washlta had been
fought and the hibernai campaign
was srlli on with something doing
every day. Custer began TO got a
little sense finally when he saw that
b. had d big job on his hands in
eonguerine the allied tribes OF the
entire Indian nation and sent out q
hurry call for rcinforcem.nts such
as ne should har. provided In the
first place.
General Carr OF the Fifth and
P.nroso OF the Tenth cayslri.s were
ordered In from For, Lyon and some
OF the infantry was uncsTemonlous!y
hIk.d out Of winter quarters to join
the general ftacas Among the lat
ter was tn. Seventeenth Infantry
xarrison-d AZ Fort Bascom. In New
Mexico under command OF Colonel
Ciend.nIn, the officer who hanged
Mrs. Surrat at Washington two
years previously. These men struck
out on their long march through raw
weather and over the frozen sands
along the Canadian with the wind
blowing terrible gale every day.
BY the time they had reached San
Francisco creek and the Palodura
they had then travelled two hundred
and fifty miles. The men were des-
pcrately foot sore and worn out
while the horses OF tn. officers wcr.
all in and twenty-five of them We're
abandoned 10 rus;l. for themselves
without even taking off the saddle
and this was tn. condition In which
some OF them were found months af.
terTards.
From drinking bracklsh water and
in trying to eat the bareback tn.
men became dciirlous In their frantic
efforts to push on and threw away
their blankets. overcoats and accou-
tr.m.nts. They were In tn. Conan
che country aud might have been at
tack.d any hour with disastrous Of
fec's but finally they struggled Into
Camp supply on the Beaver and
wer. brought back to life again af.
ter passing through one OF the most
terrible marches In history. At an
other tim. In 1850 Colonel Jerry
Russell Of the Third Infantry lcf,
Fort Washakic In northwestern Wy
oming with two companies OF raw
rockies for r.connoIter In tho
Bear Tooth mountains. None Of
them knew the country and had no
business going into such sod-for-
saken place without guides. For
nearly a fortnight, they were lost In
til. great unbroken wilderness and
escaped only by miracle.
One day Russell strayed upon
John Jacoby and Charles Chri.,y.
old army scouts who happened to be
In camp on tn. South Fork Of the
Powder river. These old boys wen,
With Russell to the command few
miles at the rear and found the wag-
ons containing the mess and SUPPLE.
stuck in a deep box canon. from
which ther. seemed no earthly way
TO get out They had no wagon
master and the soldiers were green
eastern men who'd i'd not know much
about western emergencies and lik.
the greedy fox they were stuck In
the hole.
The scouts unhitched the mules.
| three slNes of them. and sent them
mp the hill to the rear. Then the old
scouts took the ropes and tackled tho
, mules onto the hind axles and made
.
backwards until they came TO n place
where they could turn around and
then tn. gam. was easy. as II al
! ways is when one knows how. Dy
gee and by hav they wrlgylcd their
way out bearing northeasterly and
finally reached the Sioux Pass where
the mules were again cut out and
sent ON up the grade while the SOL
hat
wagons mp the one side aud snubbed
them down the other and eventually
they got back to u,iarters-nearly
starved and badly out OF sorts but
they know more.-Field and Farm.
\ Sack for the Gold: When Pat
eEarly of st. Joseph. Mo. arrived at
Deadwood In the early spring of
1877 he was iendcrfoot quite unac-
customed to IN. ways OF the west.
Although he was loaded with four
tours OF freight he was out of ready
money and his men struck for their
pay the very evening they arrived
AT the foot of Main street where sol
many stumps used to suck around as
silent witnesses of all the pucer
thlnss that were pulled off in those
rowdy days lie was a rcsourccfui, ,
customer was this same Pat Early sol
in mentioning his trouble to somr-
BODY he was told not to wary about
ne situation but to go right over to |
the Senate and get a loan from Mann
Manning. He went straight to-
tne place and struck Jack Manning
for what he wanted.
sure Mike. said Manning. have
you a sack? In those gladsomc
days the coin of the realm was Moth
ing more nor less than the native
gold dust OF the Black Hills and cv-
cry man was supposed to have n lit
,ie buckskin poke for his wallet
II get one, said Early. not know
ing exactly what was meant He
went back to the wagon train and i