Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-03-11
4 CHARM BY LIVING
IN FREEDOM Of THE WEST

p"Ss anu tnclI SERVICES lOSt TO the
government while confined in th.,
guard house,. Great business. great
profits. But what a chance for the
son OF. some poor politician to get
rich quick and without work. Is It
any wonder that the wife of a cabi.
net official could sell tradershjps for
$12,OO0.0O per year; some 30 odd
years ago?
frank Moore received the appoint.
ment Of post trader at the Little Mis-.
souri,; he was the son of an old
steam boat captain of Pittsburg,
whose daughter had married Lieuten.
ant Fuller of the Seventh Cavalry al
Lincoln. When the cantOnment was
abandoned, by the military, ne was
appointed manager for the G~orringe
Company, and has long since left the
country. Years ago while travelling
along Garner creek ] saw a grave on
a small mound by the roadside in
which | was told reposed the body OF
his brother, Hazen Moore. What more
peaceful and quiet place for the re,
pose Of q body. once life has depart
ed. Let the SHOWS fall upon, and the
winter winds blow over the grave IN
til the Great Judgment Day.
AT the time ! am writing of the
Bad Lands e the hunters Para.
disc; game of all kinds abOundins
What a. mistake that all the Bad
Lands we're not set aside for a game
preserve.
After the arrival of the railroad in
1880, came the hunters.
When passenger trains commenced
to to arrive. came the tourists and to
accommodate these r.. II. bly, erected,
on the West side, the Pyramid Park
hotel. A livery "a established, and
guides to show the "Tenderfeet" the
show places. The Cedar canon, four
miles from town was one, and four
miles farther west vas what was
known as the Burning Mine" though
it was only a bank of coal; burnings
of which there are many like It today.
The Custer Trail ranch, four miles
south, a another show place. On
the open fiat, near the ranch, Gus.
ter encamped several days while on
his way to the fatal field of the "Lit.
tie Big Horn" The RANCH is now
owned by "Eill McCarty" and was for
years known far and wide as 1.-THE
Dude Ranch Custer came down
Davis Creek when crossing the Bad
Lands, and the trail made by his
command is still visible in many
places. ....
In the spring Of 1888 came De
Mores, with his secretary William
Van Driesche, direct from France.
De MOres was at this time only 25
years of age. He claimed descent on
the maternal side from Cauis Mucius,
the Roman who crossed the Tiber to
Stay King Porsena, and by mistake
killed his. the Kings, secretary, and
then burned off his hand. But YOU
can read this interesting tale i'm the
second book of Livy. IL
DE MOres was a graduate of the milf
itary school of St. Cyr; had served
two years in the French army after
his graduation, and in 1882 married
Medora o Hoffman, of New York.
With his young wife he came to the
United States in the spring of '83.
His intention was to start a cattle
ranch somewhere in the west, and
was seeking a location when he stop.
ped at Medora, or the Little Missouri,
rs then known. The place had such a
charm for him that he decided to sci.
tie here, which he did. As there was
much disputing at the time as to who
held title to the west location, he
moved to the east side and establish.
wife. "Medora." When the town was
established on the East side, those on
tho west gradually came over the
stream; stores we're established and
large hotel erected, and by the fall
Of the same year a slaughter house
vas in operation.
De Mores mas been written of as a
nan who was dissipated, foolish and
visionary. Dissipated he certainly was
got. ne was a young man full of an.
'itiOn and undertook here that which
lad been tried by many Americans in
Texas and other states; but of this
was known by those in his
employ. ! think he showed as much
AS many Americans WHO
vent into tho stock raising business
'erc and some Of whom sent to South
america for range fOremen and man.
gers, and who thought that because
'uffalo and other wild animals could
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