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~ 1ncldentally referred 10 MS preSenc
-e at this Indian massacre. His state
4, ment was challenged. Clark's prid
e was hurt. He took the matter t
s Congressman Tom Stout who OBJ
IS tanned for him copy of the record
t, of the war department showing tina
Y Clark had appeared and given testi
e mony against Colonel Chivington.
d The "battle of Sand Creek still
S lives in the memory of the people oi
Colorado. More than thirty years
e afterwards Colonel Chivington be-
e came a candidate for office in the
! Centennial state The opposition
: newspapers at once dug up the old
: records and charged him with be-
: ing a squaw butcher.
Some Provocation.
"Maybe he didn't do right" says
Clark, ''but he had lots of provoca-
ton. The Indians had butchered
white women and had scalped many.
, 1t was giving the red man dose of
his own warfare. / felt it was wrong
when it happened. Those Indians
were under the protection of the
United States at the time they were
attacked"
4 C1dTh CdIu6 luIO MOuIdnd over
the Bozeman trail in defiance of the
mandate of the Sioux that there
should be no more travel by that
route "The soldiers told the In
dians had declared the trail closed
Clark said, $50 we stopped at Fort
Laramie until we could pick up
force of so men. was only fair
scrapper myself, but the other SO
were slime bunch of riflemen as
ever shot out the eye of Kentucky
squirrel.
"Go through over the Bozeman
trail? The whole Sioux nation could |
not stop that gang. Every man of |
us slept with both eyes open, his rifle |
in his hand and his ammunition dry. |
There was one woman and one girl in
the party. There were a few pill
grims, as the old timers called the
tenderfoot, but they were clean grit
and knew how to shoot. Captain
Reed was in charge of the party. I
carried the names of that squad of
men for many years but lost it. 1t
would make interesting reading now,
for everyone of them won a name for
himself as bold, fearless, clean citi-
zens of Montana, Idaho and other
except those of them who
died with their boots on before the
state was named"
Slightly Different
Blacksmithing in the '60s was
slightly different than it is today, ac-
cording to Frank Day, aged SO who
has had more than his share of hard
luck and record of whose injuries
reads like General Foch's celebrated
dispatch in which after reciting that !
the Germans had rolled back his r
light wing, crushed his center and t
lriven back his right wing, declared {
L am about to attack"
Day, powerful man, looking not Z
more than 20, says: "My right foot |
S crushed out of shape, my left ankle ,
S broken in two places and my {
houlder on the left has ben shat s
cred so that can't put my arm to Z
ny head, but with this hand"-hold- t
ng out hard and calloused right D
with this hand I can hold a rope
7ith anyone, and jump four feet to
atch my hold, too, on these broken
ms"
81 never mined gold,' said Day,
'urham Englishman with a tang of
ne heather in his speech. "Black-
was good enough for me. l
nod more oxen than mules and
orses. The best days earnings I
yer had as blacksmith was when l
nod Captain Stafford's four yoke
oxen, steeled a pick and shod a
orse. The oxen shoeing paid me
48-$6 an OK. I got six dollars for
le pick and four dollars for the
orse, total $58, and had almost the
ay to myself at that
"Oxen," Day said, "were shod with
split shoe and were always put in
frame of stocks when being shod."
The New President.
Thomas r. Moore, the new presi-
snt of the Montana Society of Pi-
leers, is probably the youngest of
e society's members, being younger
ZEN than Miles j. Cavanaugh, who is
lily So. Moore, the record shows,
Sc. He was born in Virginia City
1858, and like Jim Orton, he plan
I'd his arrival so as to get in under
e dead line, December l, 1868.
cores parents were among the first
rivals. They moved to Raiders
lrg when he was still boy He is
wv engaged in the gas and oil bust
sss in Lewistown.
'"This years convention has been -
wonderful gathering" said Presi-
ent Moore at the close of the ses-
ons, 'tand the pioneers are as a unit
voicing their appreciation of the
ndnesses shown them"
During the convention an old
mer was voicing. his lack of appreci-
ion of some of the present-day
ontanans who, after striking their
Ito camp, drive off and leave half
cir utensils lying about or drop
cir tools along the highway.
1--WE old-timers learned to take bet iii
r care of our few possessions" he It'll
i'd. eve had to-" Ill
Don't tell me-" said Ben Hatfield, III
mself the son of an old-timer. I'LL
Veil I remember meeting with John HI
snfro, Yellowstone Hubbell and Sid III
win at Big Timber some years ago.
ley were swapping "reminiscences
ID Renfro said: 'Hubbell, do YOU Ill
member that time down at Ben iii
MS landing when Won got Iit nm iii