Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-11-28

Larned as Bad Medicine. Clark called
him by name and asked, What in the
devil do you make signs for when you
can talk English?" The other Indians
were Sioux and on close view, they
could see val paint still about their
ears. Clark told Neva that all the
men were good shots and just then
Will WEIGH brought down a deer at
200 yards at the first shot. The In
dians were not anxious to attack after
that.
After Neva finally admitted his
Identity, he wanted Mr.. Clark to go
with him to the Little Big Horn, where
he said there was a band Of Indians
with a camp two miles long and
where there was plenty of opportunities
to trade. Clark was not certain, how
ever, of the good intentions of Bad
Medicine and declined to go.
At the Big Horn they were eight
days getting logs together for RATS
on which they took their stuff across,
They then came down to the Yellow
stone southwest Of the site of Billings
but because of the rapids they were
afraid to cross. They went on to the
Clark's Fork which they forded with
out difficulty. They then went on to
near Hunters Hot Springs where John
Bozeman had a ferry across the Yellow
stone. They paid $40 a wagon to be
ferried across.
Curtis Was at Wedding
After spending a year or two with
a miners pick in the gold fields OF
western Montana, Mr.. Clark took uI
a farm and began raising wheat neal
Bozeman. In 1869 Mr.. Clark went
back to Kansas and was married at
Topeka. He recalls that Vice Presi-
dent Charles Curtis, then a little fell
low seven or eight years old, who was
known as that Indian boy" was at
the wedding. He and his elder sister
were both known as fearless horseback
riders.
When Mr.. Clark went to the Vel
lowstone valley with a number OF
others from Bozeman, he took a lead
ing part in developing the agricul-
tural of the country. He
raised the first grain under irrigation
helped build the first irrigation canal
and was for many years the foremost
dairyman of the section. Mr. CLARK
also sold the first vegetables ever
marketed there. He took a load o.
produce which he and Aaron Ford, ar
old miner, had raised IN the Newman
IdIltll SOupll Va DllllllEo, W VI SuotSl
receiving his pay largely in extra army
ratiOnS, bacon, sugar, coffee and Other
necessities.
THE pioneers who made this coun.
try were real men who did not inter
fere with other peoples business,
Mr.. Clark says. "A man could have
any religion, or politics, and cOult
come from any part of the world with
out anyone interfering with his libert.
or thinking any the less of him.
Every mar trusted the other ant
helped the other, too. A man knew
he was welcome at any cabin and TIN
only difference the presence OF womel
made was the appearance OF a table
cloth and the men spruced up a lttl
and behaved better. II a man los
a horse, he was told where it was
Doors we're never locked and a ma
could come in and cook a meal
no one was there and no harm wa
thought.
There were no courts but whel
bad men violated condolences ant
brought in suspicion and distrust, tn
pioneers used hemp ropes. They hanged
thieves, but when the law came in
man could steal a horse, and if he wa
caught, he could sell it, pay a lawyer
and go free.
TN the early days we were all Xix
one big family. To show you how tn
times were, Meadow had built
saWmill at Coulson but had no log
yet, nor lumber. Once he came to m
cabin on the river with its dirt roo
and dirt floor. When he saw ther
was no floor, he said, I'll find lumbe
enough SO that the kids won't hay
to be on the bare dirt, If l have t
take the roof off the sawmill." The
was the disposition of the men of tn
community.
when some of the children got oil
enough for school, some of the me
went around and got money enoug
to start one. The first school house wa
a log cabin belonging to Newman
| After awhile a Schoolhouse was bull
About that time the Nutting famil
came along in a covered wagon to tax
up land west of there. Someone sal
we needed a teacher and asked If the
had brought a school teacher alonl
Miss Lucy Nutting jumped out of tn
/ wagon and said, Here, I'll teach you
, school, And so we hired her. She wa
a good teacher, too.
! odd Coulson was pretty wild abou
the time the railroad came but eve
!, the toughest of them we're honorabl
and square in their dealings. Me
, like Liver-eating) Johnson were squar
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