Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1942-01-09

of May IL, their tents were fired upon
tally wounded and four horses killed
and five injured.
IT shouted for someone to tear down
the tents to prevent their affording
mark for the murderous Indians a
second time" Stuart's journal relates.
york rushed out and tore them down
in an instant. I then ordered all who
were able to take their arms and
crawl out from the tents a little way
and lie flat on the ground. And thus
we lay until morning, expecting an
other attack each instant, and deter
mined to sell our lives as dearly as
possible"
An examination of the wounded next
morning presented disheartening
sight. c. D. Watkins, shot in the tenn
pie. was still alive but insensible. E
Bostwick was shot in five places. H.
A. Bell was shot twice-one ball en-
tering the lowest rib on the left side
and lodging just under the skin on
the right side, the other entering near
the kidneys on the left side and COM
ing out near the thigh joint. D. Un-
derwood was shot once. H. T. Greery
was shot in the left shoulder with an
arrow but not dangerously hurt
George Ives suffered a flesh wound
Hauser owed his life to a thick mem
orandum book in his shirt pocket,
which stayed a bullet sufficiently to
prevent it piercing his heart.
The party held a council of war,
= t@n it,,y, Ia
to return through the Grow country
now that they were openly hostile, and
decided to strike for the emigrant road
on Sweetwater river. They threw away
everything save enough provisions to
get them to the road.
Bostwick, alive but sinking rapidly,
insisted that his comrades leave him
to his fate, asking only that they give
him his revolver, saying he would get
even with the red devils when they
came into camp. They complied with
his wish and few minutes later were
startled by shot. Bostwick had blown
out his brains.
The dispirited but grim adventures,
wounded, pressed forward into the Big
Horn mountains. The next day they
progressed 20 miles further through
rough, mountainous country. Snow
added to their difficulties.
Their ranks, on this torturous course,
we're thinned when death struck again.
Geery shot himself accidentally when
he and another man laid their rifles
on the ground as they stopped at a
spring to camp. While they were I'M
packing their horses some blankets
were thrown down on the guns and
Geery. STOPPING to get his weapon, took
it by the muzzle and drew it toward
him. The blankets drew back the
hammer sufficiently to discharge it
and the ball struck him in the chest
Geery Kills Himself
In spite of the entreaties of his
blew out his brains in order to avoid
being an added burden to the party.
Doing much of their travelling at
night, camping before shutdown and
getting supper and pressing on again
to avoid the Indians, these hardy
souls, often lacking water and eating
sparingly of their scanty food supply,
pushed slowly ahead, through will
derneSS OF gullieS, canyons and butteS.
They noted Indian smoke signals and
were apprehensive of ambush, partic-
ularly at one point where large per-
pendicular rock formation almost hung
over the trail. Back of and near these
rocks was where they had seen a
smoke signal.
Two of the men, Hauser and Un-
derwood, volunteered to advance past
this danger point ahead of the main
party, so that in case of attack the
entire expedition would not be wiped
out without chance to make fight
of it.
But the expected attack did not &C.
cur. why they did not attack us here
is a mystery" Stuart wrote, land
can only account for it by supposing