Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-25

Finally Major Henry induced two men
by a reward of e~ighty-two dollars to
remain with Glass until he should ex-
pire, as not the slightest hope for his
life was entertained.
A Five Day Vigil
These men stayed with Glass for
five days. when, despairing of his re,
covery and yet seeing no prospects of
his immediate death cruelty abandoned
him, taking with them his rifle and
all his Announcements. SO that he was
left without any means of defense,
subsistence or shelter. The pair then
set out on the trail of Major Henry's
party and when they overlook them
reported that Glass had died of his
wounds and that they had buried him
in the best manner possible. They
showed his belongings and their story
was not doubted by any one.
But Glass was not dead. and al
though almost entirely helpless, he
managed to drag himself to a nearby
spring. over which hung buffalo berry
bushes and a few branches containing
wild cherries. When he realized the
treachery of his companions he did not
despair. but grimly determined to live
to search them out and kill them. With
the utmost effort he managed to pick
enough berries and cherries to keep
from starving. Gradually he nursed
back his strength until he at first could
crawl and then walk. His plan was a
sufficiently desperate one, but offered
the only chance for life. 1t was to
strike out for Fort Kiowa, a trading
post on the Missouri n hundred miles
away. With hardly strength enough to
drag one leg after the other. with no
provisions or means of obtaining any.
in a hostile Indian country. he started.
Upheld only by the deep-set purpose of
living to hunt ont the men who had de-
serted him. he made mile after painful
mile.
Walks 100 Miles for Revenge
One evening he came upon a pack of
wolves hat had surrounded n buffalo
calf and were attacking it. Glass wait /
ed until it was dead, and then shouted
and brandishing a stick, frightened the
animals away. He had no knife and
no fire. but he managed to tear off
enough meat. from the calf to make a
meal, and eating sparingly. it gave him
strength. When he felt able to go for
ward, he took as much meat as he
could carry, and finally, after hard
ships and distress incredible, reached
L orr hlONH, WneTe he rested Tor q rev
days. Before he was again in fit CON
dition to travel, and with some of his
wounds still In bad shape, he had an
opportunity to join a party of trappers
bound for the Yellowstone and seized
it eagerly. He was willing to r~etrace
his steps into the wilderness to the
west on the chance of meeting Henry's
party and the intended victims of his
revenge.
Again fate played a strange trick.
When the party were nearing the Man
dan villages on the Missouri. Glass de-
cided that he could save some time by
going overland across a big bend in the
river to Tilton's fort, a trading post.
Still possessed Of the one overwhelm-
ing desire for revenge, he struck out
alone. BY doing so he saved his life
once more, for the next day the Ari-
Indians attacked the party he had
left and killed every man.
Soon by Squaws
As Glass neared Tilton's fort, he
saw two squaws in the brush and rec
them as Aricaras. He tried to
hide, but too late, for the women had
loon him and Of ou~n nkfi that