Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-05-30

Cores personality that every man In
his company was willing to follow
wherever he lead and held the leader
in high esteem. His followers liked his
Irish wit and his ability to laugh off
the hardshipS accompanying travel in
the frontier regions. In his party were
secretaries, stewards, cooks, a gun
hundreds of guns and Captain Marcy
wrote: He showed me his guns Of
various descriptions and calibers, suited
to the destruction of all kinds of game,
and upon them I observed the names
Of Joe MantOn, Purdy, Wesley Rich
ards, and other celebrated gun makers"
Gore had an income of 100000 year,
a considerable amount at the time, and
no expense was spared. He had left
the luxury of his Irish castle to spend
more than two years in the American
wildS but he carried quantities of bag
gage so that he might have at least
few Of the comforts of home no matter
where he might be camped. There
were casks Of finest wines and liquors,
large tents, camp furniture, his own
luggage marked elegantly with the lion
rampant Of the Gore family crest, and
a library. All this had to be trundled
thousands of miles over wilderness
trails. The Gore caravan must indeed
gay nishman riding In the lead and
behind him his retinue of 112 horses.
u yoke of oxen, IA dogs, wagons and
81 carts.
The first lengthy stop of the expedi-
ton was made at Fort Laramie in
in the fall of 1854. Here Gore
met the famous Jim Bridger. In a
biograph of Bridger, j. Cecil
Alter has described the meeting Of these
two men as love at first sight Bridger
liked Gore and he soon became Cores
favored companion. Both we're of the
same race. Alter wrote: james Bridger
may have been the scum Of the earth
10 the Mormons but to Sir st. George
Gore he was a diamond in the rough,
an unpublished gem in the clasp Of the
Bridger was enroute to
MS farm near Kansas City when he met
Gore. He treated the nobleman in a
most casual manner as just. another
Lrishman. This indifference to rank
and title was to Cores liking and he
persuaded Bridger TO join the expedi-
ion as a guide. For two years the men
we're close companions. The Rocky
Mountains were an open book to James
3ridger and he knew places where the
yafne was plentiful. After spending the
winter in banqueting, hunting and
tory telling at Fort Laramie, the ex-
)ediCiOn started gatly on its way north.
Came animals and birds fell before
he guns of Gore and his followers by
he thousands. No one knows Just how
much game was killed but it Is known
hat at one hunting camp on the yell
owstone river 5000 buffalo alone were
lain. Nothing but the tongues and
mall amount of choice meat was taken
md thousands of pounds OF meat were
eft to rot on the prairie. Gore himself
S said to have killed 1000 buffalo In
me day, a record which was later
Iroken by Buffalo Bill" Cody. The
'uffalo made up only q small amount
( the game killed, for elk, deer, noun
ain sheen, antelope and small game
ell by the hundreds all along the
quite taken by the expedition. Thou
ands of game birds and 105 grizzly
ears were slain. Gore gathered hum
reds Of trophies skulls, ar1tlers, skins,
irds, and horns He was having the
r1e Of his life but he soon wore out