Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1927-11-18

tie Big Horn at Lodge Grass Just a month
before the Custer disaster. They met a
small war party of Crows who were out
to steal Sioux horses who said they had
found the biggest camp of Sioux they
had ever seen camped on the Tongue
river. Later they found the bodies oil
two men who had been killed by the
Sioux but did not come in contact with
the party themselves.
Starts Back In August
In August, he started back with Zed
Daniels. They met a boat bringing pro-
visions up to General Terry and came up
the river again on the boat. They re-
fused to ferry a band of Indians which
they afterwards learned included Sitting
Bull, across the river.
For several years after this, Colonel
Allen acted as government scout on vari-
ous army expeditions. During the Ban
mack trouble in 1878. he accompanied
Lieutenant Clark with % soldiers and
four Crows, across Yellowstone park
They met a party of 800 Indians near
Cooke City and a few shots were ex-
changed. This party was later defeated
by Miles at Bannock creek. One day
While going along their trail, Allen saw
two Bannacks. He made signs to them
that the soldiers were coming n that
they had better surrender. One of them
0ANt ~ Wv hii1 IA tlkd bOt away
Once the horse he was riding ~houndered
into the deep mud of an extinct geyser.
He jumped from the saddle to firm
ground and then with a hackamore sue
ceeded in getting the yellow mud off the
horse much to the amusement of the
soldiers.
About 1880, Allen again returned to
his old occupation as Indian raider neal
the agency near Absarokee but after sew
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store Of his own at Saltwater, now Co.
lumbus. Until about ten years ago he
continued to run a small tobacco and
notions store in the same building. Since
then he has spent much time in Cali
fornia but returns to Montana nearly
every summer For the last year or two
he has had charge Of the tourist infor-
nation bureau at Columbus.
Once Saved Johnson
Colonel Allen once saved Liver Eat
ing" Johnson from drowning in the yell
lowstone near the mouth Of Keyser creek.
Allen was returning to the Rosebud
agency from the Eagle Nest trading post
of Midhoff and Kaufman and Johnson,
who had been at a wolfer's camp a few
miles below, was going to the camp of
Alex Hundley on the Saltwater. john
sons horse got too far upstream in cross
ing and battling with cakes of ice be-
came exhausted n was swept down.
stream. Allen urged his horse in and
grabbed Johnson by the collar and got
him out. His horse finally gok into shall
lower water and reached the shore. john
son was badly numbed and was several
days recovering.
Once while on the Spread Eagle in
1862, Allen saved the life Of a man who
had zone out with two others in a yawl-
boat to fix the rope for hauling UP the
boat over shadows. BY a mishap. the
boat swung against the steamer and was
capsized. One man caught on q ring of
the boat while Allen succeeded in catch
ing hold of another and held on to him
until others came and got him aboard
The third man was drowned. While 60
ing up the Yellowstone in 1876. he saved
the life of a roustabout who had been
knocked overheard by the breaking of a
hawser when he swan out with a rope
to a tree snag of which the man had been
fortunate enough to catch hold.
Colonel Allen knew most Of the army
generals who served on the western
plains. He has several letters which
were written to him by General Miles
during the last years OF his life.