The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-01-03

city. For distinguisher service before
Picking he was awarded a medal with
clasp.
The period between the Crimear
war and the Picking campaign found
Duane at Malta and Gibraltar. Dis
charged in 1863, the veteran turned
to America. Failing to find what he
wanted in the east, he set his face
to the west, arriving in Montana in
1864. He was at Virginia City when
that camp was at the height of its
activities; at Silver Bow in 1866 and
at various other Montana mining
camps until 1877, when he returned
to Butte. Turning from mining to
gardening, Duane supplied the miners
of the swaddling camp with vegeta-
bles for five years. In the early SOS
he moved to Anaconda, where he con-
tinued to raise vegetables until ad-
vancing age made even this work i'm
possible. He is now enjoying his de-
Ginning days in comfortable surround
ings.
Rode Pony Express
Like Ward and Duane, Mcguire
early got into the game that brings
plenty of adventure, some measure
of fame, but very little of comfort
and ease at the end of the trail. He
was born at Barry, Ontario, Canada,
in 1912, and at the age of seven he
found himself on the trail to Adell,
Iowa, then on the frontier. Before
reaching his seventeenth year he had
driven a team of oxen across the
plains to Denver. Before he was 20
he vas regularly employed as a stage
Overland company. 1t was while en-
gagged in the latter occupation that
he met Buffalo Bill, both of the same
age. He is one of the men who can
mentally picture the great herds of
buffalo and antelope that roamed the
plains three years ago. Be-
tween times as a buffalo hunter he
acted as a stage driver or pony-ex-
press rider. The pony express was
only in operation one year, but Ma
guire did his trick with the rest.
In 1868 his knowledge of horses
and cattle for him the superin-
tendency CT the stage company herds
with headquarters at the Sand Hill
station. During his tenure at the
station he went through a Colorado
winter in which cattle, huddled in
herds for protection, were frozen by
the hundreds. And after this came
rumblings of the Indian wars that
made the west the Mecca for adven-
turers. The first outbreak came while
he was on a visit to his relatives in
the east, but the call of the west was
too strong, and Mcguire again head
ed toward the land of the setting sun.
This time he came out as a contractor
on the Union Pacific. From 1864,
when he Joined the railroad crews at
Julesburg, until the line reached,
Promontory Point, Utah, Mcguire
saw plenty of work, mixed with fight
I'VE had trouble with the Indians
all the way" he said, in discussing
his experiences. eve had plenty of
soldiers, but they were not worth a
damn. The Indians would come down
a ditch, and the first thing you knew
they were on top of you. They swept
off about one-third of the railroad
stock, but they lever got any from
me.
Plenty of Fighting
every man had to do his own
he continued. "When they
made a charge us graders would get
out and fire. There were a lot of
Indians killed but l don't know who
them. The fighting continued
up to the other side of Fort Bridger
in Wyoming, but stopped in 1868"
Turning from railroading, Mcguire
took the $4,000 he had made and
sunk it in mines in Utah and Nevada.
After going broke he went back to his
mules and freight wagons. His head
quarters were at Bryan, Wyo., but his
operations extended to Nevada, Utah