The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-06-21

Half a mile, perhaps, from the camp
OF the previous night the leading team
stopped. AS the other teams drew up
behind, its driver pointed to a ridge
sky, stood IS or 80 mountain sheep
looking down at the teams lined on the
road. The two hunters climbed from the
rear wagon and moved carefully up a
little draw leading to the ridge, at a
point above the band.
The occupants of the wagons raised
the wagon covers and watched the
animals with as much interest as the
bighorns watched the wagons. The
ON, had their eyes fastened on the
big ram bringing up the rear. If the
men could only get him! Their eyes
popped with excitement.
Presently the two men were on a
level with their quarry. They moved
to a ledge between them and the
herd. The boys saw the little Henry
rifles showed over the top of the
ledge. as the hunters aimed. They saw
the bursts of gray smoke from the
guns and heard the reports of the
to canyon wall. But the big fellow
was not down. Instead, he bounded
over the ridge unframed, though four
fat young ewes were stretched in the
snow.
To say the boys were broken heart
ed is putting it mildly. They were
little appeased when told what poor
eating the old ram would have been
and insisted they could have eaten
him If the others couldn't.
When dressed, the four sheep were
dragged down to the road and swung
along the sides of the wagon boxes,
where they OOn frOZe stiff.
The old Malcolm Clark ranch be-
tween the two canyons Of the Prickly
Pear was reached nearly an hour be-
fore moo The buildings were on the
gravelly bench about a hundred yards
above the present highway, almost
present railroad station of Sieben and
less than a quarter of a mile from Big
Prickly Pear canyon.
It was here where Malcolm Clark
White Lodge Pole, as the Blackfeet
first called him, and later changed
to -Four Bears. settled in 1864, with
his Indian wife, q Blackfeet chiefs
The son of an army officer, trained
for a while at West Point, Clark came
west in early life, mingled with the
Blackfeet and become a man of some
prominence in Montana territory. He
was a member of the first boarc
OF county commissioners at Edgerton
now Lewis and Clark county. AS mem.
toned before, his death in 1869 at the
hands of the Blackfeet was the cul.
minating event of the series of %atrocitie.
that led to the Marias fight. It woulc
seem not uniting if the site of the
old buildings were to be marked by
at least a properly inscribed boulder
IN memory of a romantic pioneer fam.
lily.
AS usual at any halt, the company
sought a sheltered spot in the willow!
during the noon hour to escape the
wind. The horses were fed hay ane
oats and given a long rest. Again thu
Dutch oven was brought into actor
and brought forth another batch O.
biscuits. which went the same way a.
those of the night before.
During the afternoon, the lower can
yon of the Prickly Pear, or the Big can
yon, as it was called, was traversed.
It was an eventful afternoon for tn
SIRENS brothers. The teams had gon
but a little distance into the canyol
when they encountered the mail wagol
from Fort Benton on a high, rock
grade, where there was no room to pass
The mail, of course, had precedence
but there was nothing the drivers O