The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1927-08-05

with beautiful mountain scenery all sides
Of you is most eXhilirating.
THE MoccaSin range, the Belts, the
Snowy and Judith mountains keep one
company all the while on the run from
LewiStown to Great Falls. Along the
route Of this 120-mile run many streams
are passed, some of which are named
with h significant titles Of Careless
creek, Froze to Death creek, Dirty WO-
mans, Swimming Woman, etc.
Many prosperous ranches are passed,
the owners of which came out in the
early days, settled, took out their claim
from the government, lived up to the
requirements n are now content to
rest on their laurelS, having derived a
goodly portion Of this worlds goods.
"A passenger cannot stage it from
Billings to LewiStown, a distance Of $50
miles and from Lewistown to Great Falls,
a distance Of 40 miles, without being at
tracted to other things of interest be-
sides that Of scenery n the towns
through which he passes. The various
stage drivers come in for q goodly share
OF ones interest. Many Of these men are
old battle-scarred stage warriors.
AT one stopover station that we put
up at I became acquainted with q man
named Driscall. He was until a few
weeks ago driving stage, but being now
60 years old he concluded he wou act
as Storekeeper at one OF h coach
stable through the coming Montana
W4AAOC4s nc 10 POPu4dLAy hAOWn dS Jill
Clark among his associates. The name
was acquired because he nee threw
into the face Of a man named Jim Clark
a frying pan full of flapjacks. DriScall
was at the time cooking these in a camp
on the Nebraska prairie. The man Clark
who belonged to the same camp outfit
approached the fire and persisted in
kicking dirt into the flapjack cookine
materials. Warnings proving Intellectual
Driscall threw the contents of the entire
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IiapJSGK pan INTO n Wo9Id-oe-tougL
Mr.. Clark'S face. The incident created
such a stir in the camp that the cook
ever after was known as Jim Clark.
"Driscall is a most interesting char.
acter. Born in ~Tippecanoe county, In,
diana, he enlisted into n of the Indian;
state regiments during the Civil wal an
fought until it's close, being wounded
him the hearing Of his right ear. Afte,
the war he became stock keeper at Rocl
Creek, Wyo., for the Overland Stage line
In those days Indians swarmed through
the country and a man took his life il
MS n Who Travelled through the west
One day DriScall was surprised in III
stable on the prairie by a band of Siou,
who intended to lake him prisoner. The,
} surrounded the stable and one gfea
DUCK entered h door saying How.
Driscall never waited to reply. He mad
a flying leap through a side hole in tn
stable through which he pitched manur
Gaining his exit he made for some cot
| tonwood brush growing nearby tn
!. stable. Bullets and arrows followed hir
Z for many minutes but he made good hi
! escape and finally reached the ranch of
, neighbor ten miles away. The Indian
drove off his stock and burned his stabl
, but failed to get his scalp.
H acted as express messenger fo
various express companies, using the oil
fashioned stages to transport their valu
ables. He has been in innumerabl
= holdups and escapades and attacks b
Z Indians during his career. He has drive
= stages in almost every section Of til
= west, even driving for a time in Australii
: Some Of b greatest dangers he sue
) cessfully faced were while ne was drivin