The Bozeman courier., 1926-07-30

Leaving the Marias it came up !
Medicine Rock Hill, as it was called, !
and from this hill crossed the bench !
to about where Shelby is now, and |
down onto Alkali Flat. It followed |
up the flat for fifteen miles in a !
nOrtherly direction, when it left the
/ flat and continued along what is
called the Rocky Spring Ridge.
'FrOm Rocky Spring Ridge it ran
] on north to what is known as Red
river, or Dry Gulch. This name, the
Indians told me, at the time, dated
from a fight there between two big
war parties, of Sioux and Crows who
were attacked, or vice versa, by Pie
gans, Blackfeet, and BlOOds. The bat
tie was fiercely waged, and when it
ended the creek ran red as If full Of
blood, and it has been called Red ri
yer ever since.
''After leaving Red river, the road
kept on to what was called John
Joe's Spring, and from there on to
Milk river. Still going north, it
crossed Eighteen Mile COulee, con-
tinuing to Middle COulee north to
Kipp's COUlee. Leaving Kipp's COu-
lee it went on until it struck St.
Mary's between st. Mary's and the
forks of Belly river, which it ford
ed at old Fort WhOOp-Up, a branch
running up to what is called Standoff
, at the present time. This is the first
wagon road which ever crossed the
+ reservation.
when the Mounted Police came
in 1874, there was another road
laid out from Fort Shaw to Mcleod,
Y a mail route.
''In 1866 I landed in Helena with
an OK train that came from Nebraska
s City to Salt Lake with merchandise.
t There we unlOaded and reloaded
o with flour for Helena. 1t was in the
e latter part of September when we un-
t loaded at Helena. Matt Carroll
{ George Steele and HubbeIl were
i there to buy the train to fill a hay
e contract. This hay was to be fNrn.
2 ished for the soldiers who landed
o where the Judith river empties into
the Missouri, eighty miles below For
- Benton. The only place they could
= get hay was on Sun river about
II where UIm is now, forty. miles from
. Fort Shaw. We had to haul it from
n Ulm down to the Judith.
II "Whea I left Helena with thi
re train, King and Gillette had received
h a charter to open a toll road through
S. the Prickly Pear Canyon where tht
W Montana Central now runs, and thi
" train I brought down was the frs
train to run through the Prickly Pea
- Canyon on the toll road.
Il "(Signed) James w. Brown, bet
III ter known as Diamond r. Brown
III I asked Mr.. Brown the origin o
the name "WhOOp-Up." He answere
that it was not to the interest of tn
large firms in Fort Benton to hav
II others engage in the trade with tn
II Iitnorthern Indians, and they had me
II employed on the reservation to rC
II port those who attempted to eros
it.
II The "free Iances" were forced t
make their preparations secretI!
II such as buying the merchandise fC
the Indian trade, which in those day
seems to have been chiefly alcohol c
whiskey, and, having loaded, the
II left Fort Benton at night, often tra7
II cling fifty miles or more without
stop, and ''whoOped it up for th
II Border" From this well-knOwn fat
came the name of the post.
Mr.. Brown was in the Indian trad
II with Joseph Kipp on Belly river. La
er he removed to Old Man rive
y where he was in business for himsel
Fl He seems to have done we'll ther
until the coming of the Mounted P,
lice, brought in by reports, ha
reached them, that liquor was bein
sold to the Indians. his was nOtl
ing new, as liquor had figuerd prom
inently in the fur trade on both side
of the line, and on both sides Of IL
line it was illegal. It has been int
mated that jealousy of the Hudson
Bay company instigated the comm
of the "Mounties".
In this instance they were expecte
and Mr.. Brown had plenty of time
cache his store of the prohibited a
ticle before they arrived, under Il
leadership of Colonel Macleod, wi
found everything all right at N
Browns, and the latter gentlems
so Hospitality disposed, that the &C
Onel spent the night with the man
had come to Investigate.
The next morning Colonel Ma
LeOd, having mentioned that he wis
ed to establish a post in the vicinit
Mr.. Brown directed Charles COnra