The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-02-01

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tau, but before he could stop the oxen
n rear wheel of one wagon and the
front wheel of the other ran over him
n killed his instantly. We buried
him later in the cemetery of a little
town. Two weeks later a baby boy was
born.
We reached Bozeman IN Thanks
giving day, 1874. Arriving there al
strange thing occurred. A man came
up to us and claimed u livestock and
was going to have father arrested. It
happened that his brand and ours were
n same and on the same place, NC on
the left hip. After a delay of a few
days things were adjusted to the salts
faction Of both, and they parted good
friends. -
I'VE travelled on down to the Shields
river and there we were caught in a
terrible storm. We lived in some cab
ms at Conrow's flats for a few days
and then moved on as far as Hunters
Hot Springs. We went on to Duck
creek and camped on an island in the
Yellowstone river and there we were
showed in for the winter.
after a while father and the other
men secuted around and decided to
settle. They got out logs and built two
cabins and to my recollection we moved
into these cabins about March. It be-
ing too cold to daub the cracks, the
cabins were little better shelter than
the tents. However, they were much
more roomy. A large fireplace had
been built and all Jared quite pleasant
ly.
I'm the spring we planted a garden
and raised plenty Of vegetables for the
next winter. Here the Indians became
so bad that it was necessary for us to
move back to Hunters Hot Springs. We
lived there until the spring of 1877 and
then moved back to own home
stead. During the previous fall the
men folks had fixed up our cabins
and in so doing had to maintain a
guard to look out for Indians. The
cabins had been built with port holes
all around the basement, with a pass
age way between them. If they raided
us we all went to the basement, and
each of us had a gun. I was only ID
years old, but I, too, had been taught
to shoot.
1.-The Indians attacked Hunters with
one man wounded and one Indian kill
ed. After this the Hunters came and
stayed with us at night. Later in the
year the Indians became so trouble
some that soldiers were sent out from
Fort Ellis to o the family to Boze-
man, but father decided to stay at the
homestead because he felt it would be
safer.
1.-The livestock was kept rounded up
and as close to the corral as possible,
but feed was good and this caused but
little trouble. The animals were cor
raled at night and we had two very
good watch dogs to warn us Of any
disturbance. The Indians continued to
try to stampede the stock, and one
night shot one of the dogs and a calf.
1.-THE following spring brother Steph-
en- was employed by Nelson Story as a
rider and we girls had to care for the
livestock. We also cared for the horses
of the Pony Express (mail system at
the time). On one occasion sister and
I had gone out to round up the horses,
they had wandered about eight miles
away. We had a very close call with
the Indians. We were driving about
20 head of horses when some Indians
rode up out of a gulch and stampeded
them. I hadn't noticed the Indians,
but sister had. I started after the
horses, but sister yelled at me to follow
her, and W both rode as fast as the
horses would 60, but I did not realize
what it was all about until I caught
up with her a little later.
"Al during the summer the Indians
we're very troublesome. One day the
men had gone up the creek about a
mile and a half to make a dam for ir-
rigation. It was a very hot day and
the stock had gone to the island. Early
in the afternoon the cattle came run
ming toward home. On going out to
see what was causing the disturbance
found that one Of our cows had an
arrow in her side and a calf was miss
ing. We learned a tribe of Indians had
camped on the island. Dora, my sis
ter, climbed On top of the house to
and I secured a horse and went
to warn the men. When I reached
them I was so excited that father
thought it was Dora who had been shot.
That night the Indians whooped and
,elled all night around the house, shoot
ing at it and raising Ned generally.
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stayed there until morning. Soldiers
we're sent out to OUR rescue but did not
arrive until the Indians had retreated
back into the hills near Shields river.
Settlers Of this region put up a hard
light to keep them on the run.
Some time afterwards Dora and I
we're driving a young calf toward home
when all at once we saw two Indians
'acing toward us. We raced toward
home and outran them. In about half
IN hour two Indians rode up to the
One of them was Bannock Jim.
They were civilized and friendly. They
a good laugh because they had just
to scare us. Bannock Jim said
We could outrun any Indian in his tribe.
father always raised horses and saw
hat we had good, fast horses to ride.
Father died that year, and the next
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