, 1924-06-19
R DAYS ARE
RECALLED THRU
81 YEAR FEATURE

whom the Republican mas been In
dsbted more than once for recall
ing . bit Of tho Old West In delight
full narrative. tells other incidents in
. recent letter. This letter Vas
prompted through the writer having
read the Thirty-Four Years Age tea
turs and will interest whoever 10
Interested in local history. 1t fol-
lows:
Casper. Wyo.. June Is. -.
Ravlins Republican
Rawlins. Wyo..
Dear Editor.
In reading your page Of Thirty
-Four years ago Tin your issue of
last weekly brought to my mind that
on my visit to Rawlins last fall l
had the pleasure of meeting VIM.
.Daley who was q boyhood friend and
7 during a conversation one afternoon
he asked me II 1 remembered a man
named Pat Anderson. My answer
was that 1 surely did and l not only
remember him but have been out
with him IN hunting trips after game
and have also visited him at his
cabin on Separation creek where
he and Charles Pfeiffer had taken
up ranches.
Ny father being quite a hunter
himself was a great friend of all
the hunters and Pat Anderson and
he we're fast friends. The town Of
Rawlins then was nearly all on the
south side of the U. P. tracks and
We lived about three hundred yards
west of where the old Pacific hotel
now stands and Pat Anderson and
other hunters used to camp ON the
creek south of where we lived and
some of them had dugouts in the
bank of the creek Just back of our
corral or yard which extended al
most to the creek.
About the fiust I remember of
Pat Anderson, he was out hunting
game and was thirty or forty miles
from town and upon his returning
ing all day he found his wagon.
harness and provisions all In ashes.
The fr eupon which he cooked
breakfast had been famed by the
wind and the sage brush was thick
and when 1t got a start made short
work OF . large tract Of brush and
also Pats belongings. He used to
tell me that he always put his ire
out after that before he left camp
but know that II was customary
with some to cover the Goals of q
sage brush fire and they would keep
for several days. This was done II
they happened to be short of matches
which happened quite often.
At any rate Pat had his horses and
saddle. left and he anne to Rawlins
and among his good friends soon
rustled another wagon, harness and
camp outfit. and started out again
but l never heard OF him starting
out and leaving another fire.
He was a very nervous acting
man and you could imagine the air
taking or q blush hue around there
with "cuss" words but It was not
so l have been out with him many
times and l lever did hear him
swear to my knowledge. His vocab-
ulary did not include the taking OF
the name OF the Lord in vain. He
had a habit of saying Holy Gobs"
and there are many in Rawlins who
have heard him utter those words
and can verify my statement. Those
were his swear words. He was very
clean and neat about dressing game.
about his cooking and In his W APP
pearance and no matter how he was
dressed always looked neat. He al
avs wore a full beard n II was
always trimmed and looked nice.
1t was a pleasure for me TO be
with him and | never lost an oppor-
tunity to be with him when could.
The last time / was with him was
Mt his cabin ON Separation creek west
OF Rawlins and just -south OF the
U. i. track. 1t was early spring and
one evening on account OF snow and
rain above Separation creek was n
river, and looked like n mile wide.
There was no floor in the cabin and
the water was about n foot deep
inside and we were walking around
on planks. But Pat said there was
no danger of going down stream and
whatever he said was just right with
me, and we went to bed that night
without n though of danger and the
next morning when we woke up we
could see that the water had been
nearly up to the bed we were sleep
ing on but vas then receding fast,
and we proceeded to dress n cook