The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-05-15
HOW TEN D0Y, BAMMAGK CHIEF, OUTw1TTED
GRANVILLE STUART; WON WHITESIPROPERTY

TOW a Bannack Indian with al
tt old fashioned muzzle loading
- rifle, defeated Granville Stuart
pioneer of the gold %diggings of Mon
tana, at a shooting match and clean
ed Stuart and his crowd out of al
their ponies, blankets and butcher
knives. is told in the personal remin-
iscences of P. w. Meadow, a member
of the Stuart party, writing from
Punta Gorda, Florida, in 1908.
Stuart used one of the first breech-
loading rifles ever brought to the
territory. but he was no match for
the Indian, who won on every shot
with a single exception. The win
ming brave was Pushigan, a member
of the band under Chief Ten boy, a
migratory remnant of the once pow
erful tribe of Bannacks.
Ten boy, or Tin boy, as he was
sometimes called, was1a brother of
Johnny Grants youngest Indian wife,
and was referred to by Maillet as the
bravest Indian he ever saw. He was
at the head of the band which fire.
quented the Bitterroot country but
he does not seem to have been the
head chief, a his name does not ap-
pear in any of the reports of the
Indian agents who had supervision
over the Bannacks during the sixties
or seventies.
Reference was made to him in the
Weekly Montanian, Virginia City, of
September 7. 1871, which told of a
band of Bannacks under Ten boy
which was then at Virginia City, on
the way from Salmon river, where
they had been for several weeks lay
ing in a winter supply of fish, bound
for the Yellowstone and Wind river
countries to hunt buffalo, and, as
they said, to fight the Sioux. There
were about 200 warriors in the party
and Ten boy called upon Governor
Potts in hopes of obtaining provisions
and gifts, in which he was unsuccess-
full. Referring to Ten boy the Mon
tanian said:
"Ten boy is a fine looking fellow.
is a pretty good Indian and if not
influenced by mean and bloodthirsty
Indians in his tribe will always be
friendly to the whites"
AT the time of Granville Stuart's
shooting match with one of Ten Dogs
braves, in the winter of 1861-1862,
with his brother James, P. w.
Meadow, and other gold seekers
prospecting on Gold creek in
he Blackfoot country. Meadow
ellis of the affair as follows:
Having heard that gold colors had
been found in the sands of Gold
,reek, which did not receive this
lame until later, Stearny Blake and
concluded to go up there and do
iome prospecting. We dug holes in
dry gulches, the bed rock be-
ng three to four feet deep. We
ound good prospects, as much as 10
ents to the pan, which we regarded
IS encouraging. 1t was now the mid
lie of December and old Boreas was
'eginning to shake his sceptre. The
reezing of the ground compelled us
o wait until spring to continue our
respecting.
We moved our camp down to the
Mouth of Gold creek and while there
'hief Tendoy, who was camped at the
Mouth of the Little Blackfoot with
is band of Bannacks, sent down a
unner to John Powell with a chal-
ange for a shooting match. These
were hunters of small game
nd could easily do us up unless we
ould prevail on them to shoot at
ong range.
James Stuart had in his possess
a Henry rifle which was about
he first breech-loading long range
brought into that part of the
ountry. AS Powell could speak the