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Georg, S.Stiers,73„livingat the County nome
Tr,rrant Coo weximes born on the Pine Ridge Indian
Reservetion„So Dek, Jan 8218644,
Ms father was 9amedienftirsmdb and his
mother a Soulx Indian, lier maiden nemPs wits 4sbasha
Wolf) and a granddeughter of aitting Bung.
Stterswa mother followed the Indian custom
of naming tho children after the mother end named
her child Tells Webesba(Red WolnwvIsh moms he used
until be left the reservation to work with white
people it the age of lb. Then he *darted his Cptherls
name of Stier'.
Le attended tWeetholle Mission schooloon.
dusted by the sisters on the reiervetion„for e period
of *let years,
At tl-e op of lb he went to Port Aoodge(now
Dodge ‘Ity) hens, and was employed as riuer for
the Pony Express during the years 1879.80..81, pill
auffelo Bill) Cody signed the 41000 bond required
to be given by the riders of the Pony Express.
Be quit riding for the Pony xpress in 1881,
and entered the Government Scout service which be
followed until 1884. After he quit scouting he went
to Texas end worked es a cowhand for the "JO ranch
and several :Wier. Vat spent several years in Tex
then returned North going to 4olorada wtore be worked
on the Cheuvenett tang* for the Eddy rothers„
Stiers quit the range life in 1891 end joined
t o 3uffelo Bill cirrus with which he renamed for
six years doidg's riding and shooting set, following
his circus career he joined Wm 8 uert and worked with
him in C'e production of t el two reel rater:en pictures
for a period of seven years. He then worked on the
vaudeville circuit until 10 y,rra ei:c•
Ti story of :gorge lire follows:
"I was born Jan 8tb,1864 on the Pine hidge Meservrtion of
So Oak. My Mother named me Tell* Web :robs, wtieh are the Indian
words for Red Wolf, The Indian enetom was to name the child efter
the soother. My mother wee SadiX Indian end e grand.deughter of
Chief bitting 4111. Her mother yes the Chief's daughter. my
father was Cenedien-Promoh,
I was born in in Atdien teweloreered in a teepee end lived
the native life of tie Indians until I resohed the age of 16,
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"I attended eight school terms going to the ptholic 24seton
ScOlool conducted by the Ststors. During the spell of time I had on
my bends, efter rttendin °lessee, I spent riding ponysvfishingvhunting
and playing with other children'of m' ape,
'e had plant: of food at ell times, !here ware lots of wild
gem* which g-ve us meet,and in addition the &wormiest suppliod food
end some clothing. Most of our clothing was mode from hides and
*Slob wee suitable clothing for the climate. It wee a life lived
:Apse to nature end egreed with me, I was e tough es *4piece of
rawhide,
Ahem I reeohed the ego of lbvI henkered to get sway from
the roeervetion end see some of th- country. I talked to matter
over with my frther and he @greed that I had e goat; idle. He suggest.
ed that I go to Fort 4iodge(now Dodge City) be knot walursio Bill)
Cody and tolo me to hunt him up, e said Cot Bill would help me
find somet,ing to do. That wee in 1879, and when I told whet I had
on my mind be said that the Pony :,xpress people could use Food
rider, one that could st-nd hard riding, was not yellow end mild
shoot fret and striight
"I told him I ooulL; ride P,.st end stand up ender herd going-,
could .shoot fast and strreight and did not think I w•s yellow. It
was neeessery to give $1000 bond before I could go to work, body
P000mmendod mg end wont on mr/ bond. That started me on s three year
spell as e rider for tYll Pony 7.xpross, My trail was betweon Fort
Dodge end Aohtte hens, The Pony Isspres- carried repistered meil
It wee the fast method
and there was oonsidereble velue-le
madly in our der,.
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he distance was a WM. Over 100 sines and we ro n
ten 1,ourse there were 12 change strtioneatecoted about 8 miles
sport, wl-nre we W-enged hosees, The bosses were the best that mnney
could buy for the purpose all of ti -e Stool riumt reolng stock. We
put the critters over the road at their best *bride every foot of
the way. Our orders were not to stop for enythingtunlese It wee
absolutely neessyry. A fresh hoes was always reedy and waiting
when we arrived at station, All the rider dia was to aismount end
remount the fresh hose as quick as possible,
There wee no stopping
for meals or water, I orrids enebk and a canteen of wets and
what eettilig or drinking I did was done on the hoes awrunning,
"Dueng the three years 1 :ode I had two ioldups and bested
to
the robbers each time, The second holdup caused 5111 Cody/hews me
pull off, !le tdld me that he wes responsible for me getting on the
ride end would be responsible f -r tskirg me offothst if I didn't
quit he would nu 1 down his bondobe ',use 7-0 didn't went me to get
killed, bsopuee of the wey he felt el -out the spotter I quit end that
ended lied wolf's r4ding on the Pony lixpreas,
"I shell give you a little ch'nning ebout wi-st hemmed in
three t -o holdups.
"The fret onel was sort of expecting Just before I was
reedy to hit the trell out of Vilohlt- I wes-three men leeve headed
at over the troll and I hsd e hunoh,that they were going to stick
mm up„ They, were dressed like rvelidestbut didn" eet like it, they
kept Ceti' eves peeled on me too much, ihe country was full of mottle
and rewhides could be seen on every hana,but some way I could tell the
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the reel from t", -.e n'ioney.
"Itvtôe wen nrw em fellows eying as I see to myself,'
'Ism in for some trouble,them fellows will *tisk me up at tt.e water..
hole. PIA 7,aterholf, ,r.s el -out four miles out of town, Imes armed
with a rifle end two good six.guns. I run Wes through mu heed bow
to out.emert the boys In ors* they iried to stop me eno en ides
came to my mind, tele, I serried out end srved valuables.
*As I acme. over the treilerid'ng some whet oarekul, I
suddenly spied the boys at the side of the roedoneer the waterbble
behind ,ommo burrOlo grass. They drove out to the reed end drew rads,
gams end yelled'resoh resoled high and at the same moment
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drove the g t hooks into thri hoes eno C:rew myself to -the oppostterighti
side of the hose, I hooked my left spur in the nursing).* end held ti--•
the mein with my left bend end rode on. Of course lust an soon as r
Put the Fut books to the hose it went to kicking dirt. That sot took
the ors by -urpriee and before they get th^ir mind to wnrk'ng on
the next move Twos 50 yards down the zoned. That is when they started
to throw leed. I still W*R proteited by the hose. I could hear the
bullets whistle'obut that was the onlySontedt I hed wit!, the leed,
By V.-41 time they got their hosses under -way Bed *olf re* a good 100
yards down the trellis
They tried to *etch 4164 .hat' it was ImpossV-1* „because my
hos heed the speed snd was freet, As /coame in s'ght of the change
station, sout
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well providedabith tires end each *en wets e deed shoot, when the
NpOtligiti sew whet I wee doing they turned end hit across the oatuttry.
The second did not turn out so well for losibiat I wee not
robbed. Thet time I es not expecting a stiokup,of course we were
ways on the lookout for robbers, I wee riding into ?tart Dodge end
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had at aiites to go end one more change to asks three miles
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*heed, A:lefilama-suddenlilielnettkrit from hehlud a. bunch of buffalo
firmlibrit Airliroliirdemtw_d of mend 70' *IMP OlLbigt4 I roe ched
ger at 00410 0 0111 Um
end slowed my hons,but as I irt close to the fellow I t rem ay
self forward ,onto the hosneli neck end it ti7e same time put the gut
hookn to it. My hose reared end leaped forsvrd and it that moment t
the fellow shot, 4he Aess hit the beiwilt knocking him down end
the hUllot hit me. It parted my heir et:0114140ms it the top of the
forebsod,where that soar is, enJ skirted book off of my bead,
v he lest thing I remembered .es the hoes reering end hoer.
tug the shot. *hen I come to my senses 1 wen in the post hosnitol
at irlrt Dodge. The boy l it the change station,C-ree miles down the
rode, told R4 I came in ridint„ it top speed laying forwerd end hang»
ing to the saddle horn with one hand 014Q the mese of the hose with
the other, That i.hed blood all over as end the front of the hose
end held such e tigt t *sip they bed to pry ay hands loose,
I aer ‘,4 in tVe haspitrl for five drys and then wan out 'gain
glmd TAI'?i'ii°c.treergelVf6 Inns in the hospital end
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hidi ton with me shout gutting, Ives not mush stuck on the ides of
4wuitting. I sort of henkered sifter the Job. To me it wee the real
C-Ing end gave me eyettement, at z1111 sesio'boy I dOt ,:ou into this
eporagoing to get 7ou out before you get out down, I am going to t
'eke down the bond if you dont gait of your own secore.
%het left nothing to do but quit or find a notter -rendsmen,
Bill hied probed to be such a good friend and I sort of usnted to do
as he ea 14,80 quit,
"It hurt my feelings to gult*bsoeuse the work wws, real
pleasure to me, Out side of that stickups my trou lee as Pony
iftpress ridor was corfined to the weether, No weather wcs supoeed
to be so bed that a Pony xpress rider (.1ould not, go trout it
Ordinary storms did not interfer,hut the bligasrdsgave us troubles*
The worst time Itied was In the lsto spr1:g thet kept me out all dry
and night towwske the drive. The wind Am tagh and Um) snow coming
down in gheets„ At times I could not see the hoses bead and as for
seeing the troll tat was impossible. If we got off the troll and
missed a station woQld mean to be lost dind the hoss would 3002 tucker
out teaming us at the mercy of the storm I did not try to raide the
Nooses but left the animals to go tFeur 'my and esc'- 'es* took MP
tr
to the setption ',head, When I arrived at 4:ort .wodge 1 was covered
with to. and snowilbut still able to go, oce if necessary.
I quit th Pomy Express 3111 took me to Fort tam lind
registered me inthe /*Worst oout sorvicesin wheioh I served for six
peers. The firet pert of my bout aerate* wee scoutIng for the *mtg.
grant trifles trrveling t rough the country* a 'oouttad for troublo
and m001.0160 nrotedtod the treins st.nIght,
4/Lhe emigrants would put tleir witoits In s circle when they
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.cepmed at night and sleoptinside of the circle* e couts would
vide the circle all night doing s three hour shift*
n'o.len I joirod the cot iez'vioe tbovIndion_trouble was about
over wit!' ttmouf. thee section of the country* Therefore, I w -s
in not being called upon to do any fi Tting* there were several times
that it looked lik we were to for trauble*but it never came to o
fie -t because the raiders .figuDed we were too =oh for thmn. the
danger that V-419 emigrents wore faced with crossing that oo,Intry was
being bmidedvby both Indians and *ernes, as History reoores many lost
their. lives and property* I have seen many matins of the slaughter
suffered by emigrnts*
"ihe letewrorrt of my &scut work was watching for bandits
the most exalting time I llad doing that work concerned Buffolo Bill.
I come to s raise just sb-ut sundOwn and looking off sa distimnoe I saw
destrwhech told me it was frovenum'or of hose s traveling end was
sure it wrs a party or liadions* I hit for the dust end by the time
I reached the trail it vitis dulk. the number of tracks showed there
were *bout 150 In the party i I decided to see whit it was all re•_lout
-end -hit to follow it. I followed it shout five miles and then sle,ted
fire* Upo re,ling the Me I sow iron* there were several riles
recently put out and one left Awning next to a hole in the side of-
e- hill*
:ometLing urged me to look into the hole* I crawled in end
came in contect with a bodysthen I took hold of the leg end dregged
it out into the (men* that time my lungs end eye mere full of
smoke end wes chatting and blinded* ',hen I got my wend land eyes
*leered lo-ing at "Iv fee' was my friend luffelo Bill* Ho
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wore his he'r i o. beerd long end it wes blaok
The one sloe of his heed end foe wfs Iirned. No ell of
life wen indioeted. cupped my mouth over hie end blew eir-Into
hie lungs end suoked it out egeln. kept theinOP for several
mlnUtes end we Obout to give up when I felt e muscle twiteh. I
sesoiThenk God be is not deeds, Then. I went to work in eernest end
in ft littll he benign tb breeth In lb minutes or so be wen
sitting up.
"le we plenty vele ',round the gills end week. I knew thrt
the inctions bed nut 8111 in thet shepetbut wee curious to know w!--2,
the,: did not rut P finish on the job.Ilessotaillowho did this end
Stet hes hendebede, Ee tried to telkebut wee uneftle to sey s
word end wes trying herd. Finally he 'It out,' bunt.tig pe.r-tv•
win.be.go'y west ell thetlbroould
"I put him on my hose end took him -to Fort Benlerwhich wes
the nerrest pont. Ell the titter we reeohed the posthe mos feeling
tolerebly tell end in e counle delys vas pert egein,exoept for Vle
tender snot where the bmerd end heir had been burned.
(14 teld re whet took pleas. Le was droving into iort
Eenieend mime @cross the Indian hunting party. Le wee not expecting
enything to happen end they took by eurpriseompught end tied him.
They molouleted on revenging en old grad& held *grimy blefor kill.
ing Choir -Yellow iammeroin e fight•when he wee with Generel Nqloo
in 18,6.
Irdions took him to their comp end I reckon were bent
on killing him,but must hove sounded the ground -ono heard me e.eoming.
ZO that you mey know whet is ment by soUnding the groundsi mey es
well tell new. In en open where it is etillipyou eon place e piece
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of light weigh cloth on the ground4end put your air on the cloth,
you willbe able to hoer the approsoh of a hose for several miles
off, et least long before you can see ittor hoer it, without
sounding.
"Knowing somet-ing *bout Indian habits end oustons,I reckoned
they vented to know for sure no one would drop in on them while
they were putting the brand on sill. They knew it would go herd
on them if caught in the eot. therefOre, when they beard me
e.00ming they decided to put him in the hole end smoVler him to
death. If he wet found it would look like an mildest and the
ahem* wee against finding hIm4
I base my reckoning on the on the foot that Bill ses.'lhey
suddenly she teotios and with haste pushed me in the ha*,
tied me I wesothen vemoosed. Thereforeololf Ism living my life,
dant breathing your sir". be elweys called me Visitor itsbesheo
although I had triton my nether's name when I registered in the
Servo service. Many times in the after yeersohe would tall me
bit, I em living ity lifeybut breathing your sole.
During the time I rode for the Pony Express end did Sopuk
amity,/ sew lots of Settle end doebends.because thet section of
the aountry woe loaded with critters on Vol reads. list is were
water holes existed. Seeing the cowl -ends end lutohing then work
omusea me the ;let hankering for the mettle bull/nese. I heJ
heard of Cher% Goodnight's AP6ge end disided to dreg for Texas,
end I lit in itest loxes on the old K. It belonged to Goodnight
and Adeir. I jointed the outfit in 18716
P I stayed in the cattle work fore spell of years and
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worked for a number of outfits, but the JA was one of the best
outfits I oonnected with. It wee next to the eddy outfit up
in Loolorade•
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ito !setter where I went, and I have been over e tolerable
lot of the courpryvhere end foreign countries too, whereweer the
memo of Qoodnight was mentioned to conneotion with the -et end
the cattle business, the boys would doff their conk c-ver.to-
GoodntAlt. They all agreed that he knew more shout doweeknew
more stout the t,st then is in the books. He was square as a
men can be made end was gpme from the toes up to V* top of his
Conk.
GoodniFht hod the top revihida working for 114m and
squire buuok, Is would not keep s crook or a drinking men around
t I* oliMe. There woe Jobny.Gome Adatelyvthe 000kIrs camp
belly -cheater. i was sour...dough and ebistle...berry artist.
John Mann, the wagon boss was reckon** by everybody as the top
in hi- line. Jack strobe lv the trail boss another top hand.
Thom was Jim Own,Jim MitchellvClub toot 4ack, Jess Steen end
Ed Joneeppart Cherokee Indienothet now lives in tortrierth some
where, ell them boys were tops.
I know whet I pm prattling stboutvbeoeuse I have sf=en them
on, lop Immas that made their living showing tl'eir ability to
the public end the JA boys suns ,ion F with the bostand ell had
whet it takes to make s cowtend....guts.
wont to cite en incident Clot took plass with a hunch
or us JA waddles, A few of us were given ridinv orders to work
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-;:engelore,
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e round.up neer Mobeetiet which ¶sNorth by Eest from the mein
renoh. In therm cloys Mobeetie was tolked abut es 'holding sot.° of
the tougTlest of the tough baokeroos. iellowe that )ived on
tng end anything else that they could find to do, that did not
cell for mus.;14, action,
";3u4 —oberst had e buckskin 1):-ss that looP,ed like chunk
of dog mort roaled in mom boss hidet,"ut it hed the running vforke
end the guts to do it. There were eeverel hosses eround there
thet f01kr t" ought would run end we bed several rsoe's during the
spell we steye,.;4 there getting the herildtogetber* Zleepy, that
wee the naq],e of dees hose, Will pitted optima the bosses that the
gemblerjr f'r the purpose of taking in the rwarlAdese 1 rode Sleepy
for dudtbecause I wes light weight end knew bow to :leap a hose
do its bet. Iiperrood that wbile still kld on the Pine hidge
beservetion. 4ell, 'leepy end I took th,- jeok away from the
gem'lers: tn ell the dozen, or so, reces that we bed there
never lost ones be just kept t1e gemblers bringing on better
bosses trAng to get their mosey b-ok. I never drove 010007
foster than necessary to stay in front about a lenght. It Awl; a
',oss that coul,. pick up speed fat, so I was oloying safe if the
other ,loss sowed a sudden burst of speeds I knew that Cleeny
could tyke it away.
tire cane wen we were reedy to drift the cottle
to headquartel's and still bed the gamblers jack in our pants.
That h'irt the tremblers pride. 1, got wind t et they were going
to interfer with our herdoclaiaing critters in it for en excuse
to pick a ftelt end *tick us up.
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to 1:41r0 about ready to 'tart the herd at sun 'baths
morning Wien a nerty of men on bosses come claiming that we had
some of their critters in the herd end insisted that they were
going to cut them out. The critters v7ere all pure and we knew
it Goocinigl-t would make every m trer's son of us hit the
drag if we corm in w`th an author kind„
"Jim .iitcholl veld them no mind, just as though they %ere
buno',, of buzzards en., went on about his work en4 yelled drift.
ing 01.0nrs. :;lub aoot Jeek,wes sitting on hi- 'oqs sort of Ion
sided„so be could face the gambler", chat ing on a hunk of lbectoYe
Fe squinted or, eye and squerted gob of julee.then settitt Ay
of y s buckaroos that are venkatring for to be branded for the stemma
re*g.i jut wave towards th m critters, we are henkeiring for ye
to start, ilia first skunk that starts will get brooded atm as
nta0t r move as made by the fp-1,1144ms gentry and the hard
drifted slowly out on the trail. That incident will give you e
good idea what kind of men was with the JA outfit,.
The h-rdest going I hod on the Ji was laying out watching
for rustlers. There was spell -.hen the entry were quite pert
with their work get *ring critters with th- other fellowii brand,
During one of these times I toyed out ell night when it was sleet..
Mg* My cower was a blanket *nu s slicker over that, I arose at
the end of my shift with an inch of ice all over me, SIN* I got
up it creaked end tumbled off of me,but I wee as warm as a piece
of toast inside of that 81-1#11, 'rustlers were mode sort of quick
work of in those alays..Aist was done when they ware caught with
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rustled crItters would he to berg them dito to dry end if there
wos no -limb hrndy the. would be given o -'1ort course in citizenship.
I have seer -everel with bullet holes in the ilodles end the buzzards
hevinu e feed.
bout the feed we we ,dies lived on I don soy thet it
woo plenty end the Alid not puts leer lord on the slots. It 'ass
mostly beef off of e tot yeerling end some wild gome the bo
/mac 11.11. 1,,t.1 there wee the sourdough breed end boilinso;rup.
block oofee* dried fruit end some vegetebles out of the orn,
Goodnq+ht !coiled for the best from his }tends end he geve them the
bolt he coul in return. tie eles711 t*id too wogs. I recived
$35 p month for worle-thet most of the outfits prid onl750 fors
crie more incident ebut the A before I quit chirninc
rbout It ihrt Incident is on myself. Chen I loined the outfit
I wos not wise to ell the tricks of the wild range critters. One
dey I OPITO upon e 'lunch of eogehens, whore they were nestirgond
deo'ded tor kvn Flows eF,gs. Eggs -were seers- article in the ronge
essoetment of emelt and ,I sort of Denkered for some. hod gothered
about two dozen end pieced them my hot when i looked up saw
s wild steer mskirg for me. It was either shot the erItter or melte
tor.nry hoes. I made for the hose slopping the het Vto ths) 1,mddle
rnd in doing thet tho eggs spilled °ell over the seot end of course
broke. I hed no 'Owe to clean the acddl• so hod s short ride on
a slick soddle. -iehn I got to where I could give the matter ettenpo
,tion rwes full of sticky eggs down me legs en., ellow in color.
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Front then on t' im boys Celled me Cheif Yellow Leg. :-.1) if y-1.1 run.
eross any of the old boys of the JA end they t-lk tOxtut Yellow
Leg, this th.e men.
Ttxtt 7aught me. to stay on my hoes when eround-e wild steer
they would most likly tackle e men on footebut would run from e
men or e boss unless cornered.
"'--en I qdit the Jt I ent to C'herley Goodnight and td
himagirm qUiting and spying goodby to s square outfit',
urY hand for a minute emc then sespeCheff„ I am slaying voodby to
e good Indian erto-1 don't meen e deed onel.- You can light here
any time you jiggle through',
'I ter. jiggled out to the Deco. country working first
for one end then another outfit,' Met coiultrY was sone tougt end,
after my spell with -the Jr. outfit the Pesco Itvle did not it
well it' w. Le rangers were in tImre trying to clean it up
sm.) had been for quit* -e spell. ite folks took the totter as sort
of e joke. VcAy wcr,10 tell OS a joke thpt the vergers olotered the
range of be6 men in s certain section end had them all rounded up,
'4-11,11 th_y tried A) get s jury to try tte men,on one charge and fo
emther„ there was not enough at folks loft to form e jury.
"I wente6 to se the country so beams s arddif, tWaipa
cluck limo rider, for e spell, them days it was no trouble to
live en6 1.,r10 your flue just going from (re outfit to. another,
Any ple2e YOU ould stop the. first tng the ramrod would soy
wee,' Light end cool your saddle and line your flue'. One could
stay e rood spell and be welcorla.
"tfter.e veer on aweft, bum I hit for Colorado and there
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jolned th Veal: prend outfltiosomettmes oslieu the Cheuvenett
rangy. It wee looeted elorg the Cheuvenett\tourtfqns end awned
P,S
by the 7,ddy brotere„ there headquarters w•s
their rnc wes called the year brand,bncausa\ they brended the
yeer when the ctItters wee brended on the aide of t! (Fritter,
14 will say it le 1,906, The I would be pleoed\on the hip, the
two Ws on the ribs end the 6 on the Jew.
'That was the biggest outfit I twee aveir\.,e(7.4n, Vesiculate
they run es many as 104000 bead on that renpes In order end
merievment it ,.es like the doodnight outfit, I neated there for
10 yeere,and wee one of s-vut 100 waddles connected with the
ranch.
"WO hed s large bunkhoule to sleep in when not out on
the range too far to get in, tilerr wen s big shed wit! long
tables where we sit down to line our flue, Pet(Cumftetvisweon
ws the chili cook and a good Altroheeter, who spent yeire
with the outfit, Le e7weys went Witi. the chuck -Aragon end left
hle helpers it the mein joint,
Abet was Aloe Ipuntry to work in during the sunnier,
but the winters often took the silver out of your cloud, and
MoDoweld was the tow/merest and square shooters"; lo h help in
e time of a bad spell of weather, Le would not ask us weddlei
to go when he would not, 146 ellasys was with us in times of
trouble, 6hen a weld spell of weather hit he would sent pontoons
of ',ot thick, block coffee to the islet riders, Curley le, son
would ltf,y up ell night ft:tiny o ffee when s reel bed spell lea
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a busting, f,hen the riders lame in -off their shire there wee e
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enek end e 11 the hot coffee one wanted me tfing 4
the ulhmre w're times An the t cAintry that two had to keep the
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critters mill'ng or e lot lorculd be lost from Oeezing. Lardly e
winter pasted without e llitss from Vlft .,/eather40 letwfken 3 A4.11,
end sun up WI- twor3t ime for the nig' t rider, It Is et that
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time thr cold is Olt thei vist,
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worst stam0e4e experience was an the .,ear outfit
and in v dol'c; spoil dill* the lest year I was there.
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It wee sultryl_ell day end me reokonedl so' buster rellog
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int in on us and we re konied right. It was ebOit v,aio hours by
sun arlAtn the weather s artist, to drop
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fast to ereumd *ere with e
frst- win. I can see/0st s rd now, in my mindle ey0:,thPre must
have been b„000 in that buneh
just
the t
before dusk, ro4:ulci se4
Min coming fgom the heat
I we with. Looking over the critter.%
e greet fog reiOng from the cattle
of their bodies lend breath* There
mpg ice forming nO settling on their broke. My eyelids end
bee rd we g t- ki n .f.on lee so f*, s t t I could',not hardly keep
my peepers ones,. i
?ud 1440.**111,d geve orders *MI extra: hent eiroP
on to 1,elp keep the herd. moving trusteed of bOdding down, ay ion"
/Iv the
there tl
trust hav4 heu into the herd to pull don a wit end sterteo
side critters ere constantly being worked to the ositOre
bod7 *vet of the critters helps ,to keep the enimT
moving helps., A lobo, or some Otier lend of .nil
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bunch end obcut that time snow be ento fall enu drift with h
heavy wind, I sbortspell of timr 14' vfts e howling bit'imsnit P
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end tho)critters on the storm. Aid et tie strrt told us to not
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to spond too mush time trying to turn the critters"but stay with
the herd end keep it from soottering PS MUOI1 es possible. There
WO8 no weN to tell where the herd WP3, in last short time after
t'e snow. sterted" ,He had to judge from the alosk of the horns
end the stomp of the feet. strom kepit getting worst end
the crittels kept running. e bed no trouble keeping ttrm worm
thrt night.
Pe middles could not see where each ether were end would
shoot end welt for en answer 'sometimes I would get en answer end
span I would not. That was the worst blisserd 1 mow in that country
end the critters tast kept running until they run dawn end could
not go any more. It was one of them storna whore if I fence lost
the herd it would be s long Chem, of finding It spin end get
lo ‘t, or if the hose went down end ':roke s leg there one would be.
"l' et herd be to tucker in a out 80 hour to sloe
gete,'.ut the weather was so bed we could not twork the herd. The
enimels finer/ stopped running and ell we coeId do w -s striae
herdootr;ing to 1ieep it hunched until dayligbit. J.hen we heeded
it bock to V:zo. prezing grounds.
"It WPS still storming",-ut stocking quite pert endby
.noon it we 1l over ard the sun shining brjgbto Thar we took
JeckoMing end ,of sour e -found that s lot 04rt'e critters
re
missing enu throe of the rawhides were out, Two of the bil7111,
v;ere not found untill spring when the enoW went off. valet hoppen
tad is not known,
they wwY hove got ntreyed and did not know bow
to take core of then —elves" or they nay helm tcken s opil1 end
hurt so they were helpless. hbout, the. middle of the efternoodp
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Fengolore.
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TOXP1 711M epne dressing in pert es o snow birdehe 'ma the other
miss/ng weddy. Ee mode hie report awing; 'Loll bo::s I got streyed
ibilowing whet I thought wes the herd end it WS bunch of 2b or
so. o I just rollod up' in a snow benk to kerp worm untillthe
old heeter showed, out from belnird tie sloudet.
"V.hen we 1241t tho chuck line after thrt spell„binp out *11
night end till nbon without nothing but aponish suppers for foods
we glove the belly.. heater pleat to do. Olmfley was ready with
son.of.*.gun stew end ooffeeofter we lined our flu* ;;41 were
reedv for some stalt-Cor.
rAs him& of we ,die n on the SeerVirand outfit wer a greet
unoh and e 400d wry of them wnet to the top in their line of
ability,
1340.Gray„ as a roper yips equal to Booger /Jed, It we
hrrd to sOy *blot was the beet, 5ud MoDoneld,the foremen wrs tbe
top rider an0 Ie.xes Slim wet, right with him. "oponoldvelim and
Yak Chinook. ell mode records es riders. Volloneld held the ohsmnion.
ship for a spell. :Aim took it envoy from him end Yak took it from
him, Tomes itm and I were the best shoots or the outfit and, it
was a tussle betw-en us.
The 'bubith of us worked wit' Baffin° 31111- show in
later years. 0 ti.Orey w ms one of the featured shots working
with Annie Okl*y• e end her serried while with the show, 1 was
els* featured shot end rider, Indian Chief liolf„ was what I was
billed under, My beat shot was to throw two gases bells in the
air shot one Orli,' up end mite for .tly oter to drop to a -out
three foot of the round, then drop sk, Ovin and get it .Also,
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would fin 8 qUerter dolleryphooney of course, in the eir end
mste.lt dissppecre A glees boll, which is rosin, will bred l end
s coin goes out of sight with the bullets
"I Soloed Bill's show in 1991, ono 'toyed wit" 11'm eight
veers, I Ement mg winters it is North Platt rench, I took his
big sign for whet it meld. On the roof of his born wee pointed
iteouts rest tiplioons" end bill ment it sll old timers of the
'tango end the iost coal(' cone end stey es long es they nleepc44
"After I quit Aliso show 1 wont to Los Angles snd joinsid
bnifiskert in the eroduotlen of his tift reel western pictures. I
did riding end softy stuff, oleo shooting" I steyed with Fort
until he quit'prodnationethen I wont on the veuderville circuit
oleving the i,est„liestb end 1p stern time then the vedisenetlle
pleyed out end that ended my sett,* osreer•.
n All I do now i sit here visiting with the other old
men end loblt et then picture which gPte me to dressing of the
nest. I thl.k of the old boys in their ploy end stories they
would tell 5itting eround tbs cony fire.
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itangelore.
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°After 8111 Cr recovered froM his Indian experience0he
end I were sitting in the sheds of a building talking of first
one thing rnd another. I flnellY\SOS to Bill,"Tell me the do.
toils of the devil whioh caused thelkIndtans to hold, a grudge
agrinst you",
efio nes whittling on s etiok.end didn't may word for
few minutes,then turned to me and *OW I Ivy, not hankered
to :meal about that fight, It was ndt just ocoordini to Army
reguletions, 1 will tell you Chief, because I em living my
life,but breathing your air, YOu will\be the first to hear
whet happened end to know .boat it from\my lips. $o be lit
in end grve no this story:
"II Was with General !ales 11)764„ Thebinnebegosuudder
Chief Yellowilsmasir hod left :the reserastioo.snd we were hunting
the bend. W. located them and they aterted to battle at ones,
Our cavalry could .n1il*t the indienstbecsuse as YOU krow,
we had better gun:Pond-asa whOe were better Shots, We slso
hed them oornered. After fighting for a short time uoners1
Miles decided to step Ve sl#sighter if he could. We bed the
'onnebegos,corned 44 there was not a change for them to escape.
"benerel Miles reised whfte flay *Itch wee for the
OarPoso ot +Selling true* end bolding s parley, iring stopod
and the Oenerel advenoed heir way beteeen the two lines at the
same time (try* tvio signs that be mantrd a nerley. Chief
Yellow .11emeer come tormeet bin',
"Miles sea te the GhlefoeChief you see ell up, breves
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back there they are many in numbers and many more can be called
here'. ae can kill all your braves. I ask you'ti sign a treaty
and take your braves back to the reservation and save their
lives.'
"'The, chief answered and said4 Chief YellowHammer
take oath on blood knife, no mora.sign-white man treaty. Me
save my' braves. You find an kill me. Chief take !allow Hammer
place him sign treaty: Me no sign.'
"General Miles wai placed in a position.of deciding
.whether to continue the fighting aad kill the Winnegagos, or take
a chance of redUcing-th• casualties to oneiman. Mlles decided
to accept, if there was no other way out. S4 again he urged
Yellow Hammer to accept the proposition of signing a treaty, but
the Uhiaf just repeated his position and callad for someone
to kill him and then his suCeesser would sign.
Alright Qhief if.that is the way you want to do'".
Miles answered him. "'You pick the man that you want to do the
killing"'.
"'I fight em'", the Uhief.said pointing to me.
!It Mlles turned to me and said, "Hill he has picked you
and not kill him, but to fight it out to death. ihat is not
quite What I hid in mind".
"'I said to Mlles," I an placed in apposition where I
can't afford to refuse to meet him. To do so 'mild brand me
as a coward. Ask him how he wants to fight?.
9.11.11j8-az
"'I was thinking about shootingAIMMINAIIMAMMSTINOd
Inser.t
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deaired to 'find out the. A44ance that he wanted to sb,pot and
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lea turned to Yeilow Hamm and „asked Mak 1)0w he
wetted to fi\icht. 'Yellow hamar .rai d his bowls ialiffi and
said, "Fight een knife".
"Mgt was ,wiexpeoted an little out of my'Aine, but
I was in a hole, and cotild noyafford o back downiso Ire Prepared
for action.
"'We. diamo ted and/ the Oief stripped to ,his waist. I
did the sae, the withiour knives in band we. advanced to meet
each other. henwm we raisied our knife had, in the air and
k
crossed knives sta4ing.raee tokface waiting for\Gemeral Miles to
to agree n the, signal,
give ,the word "go"
ntchief yellow hammer was a
every bit my \\size and hard
as rook and witla norveW steel. 1 his braves st4d back away
from where we-Imre and Citur soldiersilid he same, bUt\all could
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watch the. st uggle. When the Chief d,I were in posi4on Miles
k
inquired if we were ready* The Chier unted and•I said', *yeti".
t
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Immediate y Miles girr_thek.go sign. and we were at it.
I 4 a spared-- for an +ming, hookek, and locked'knives,
1 r N
time a d again trying to pit eaph7.,ot4er. dff .balance so a thrust
t.
could..o. made. :I would, back away. sid,este),feint trying to
pull/him into, a position. so #hot. I could drive my. knife into him.
The/Chief is good and .i.aet mi moves and in rapt kept me about
as/busy testing his .Moves as I\.was keeping him. One thrust after
another were blocked and neither of us could get in a telling blow,
except
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for sIit't flesh wounds ne1M-er of us were hurt sitar 16 mu mites
of bottle, tech of us were oovered with blood from the numerous
cuts end I beg* ii to think that my time hod caws, The feat is
17-0 "Ps my equal,
"I decided on s bold move to end the dtruggle one wey
or another, One that If I felled,' would be open to s thrust In
the beck„but if I timed mm save correct *ad succeeded I would
have e a ens, to oat in e blow,
"Zibeoked army end feinted e deih at him end e stunt40,
stooping ehtfut en arms 'Aught from him. lite felled to detail the
feint end es I bent over in the stumble he mom In IOC} his
knife raised for e drive into mq beck. As he some in !reined,
suddenly it unexpected to himora sucoeeded In getting denth
grin on VA wrist of -his knife hands At the seam time I threw
my cIg.t egelnet htm I found em opening, as I hed planed.
and drove my knife into his Chest. No both went to the ground
with me holding that grip or hin knit hand, ia e few moments
I felt ha body guilt r and 1 knew Vet 4 led him,
2
Ilearner kept hil word and nett!,
life to nave his breves rettvr than sign the treet/,
eve his
ihn
bowls In th-t hunting party happened upon se alone end intended
to reveng the deeth of their old Waifs