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Title: The Yellowstone national park, historical and descriptive, illustrated with maps, views and portraits
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Chittenden, Hiram Martin, 1858-1917
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Publisher: Cincinnati : The R. Clarke company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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his old road will not disappear,except through a forest fire, for centuries to come. While descending the valley of Carnelian Creek thelittle party had a momentary scare that created somethingof a panic. One of the herders rode into camp in hot hastesaying that a large body of Indians was coming down thetrail from Dujiraven Pass. The men instantly withdrew alittle distance from the train and took up a defensiveposition, where they waited an hour or so until all dangerhad passed. It developed later that the Indians werefriendly scouts under Lieutenant Doane. After arriving at Baronett Bridge, and when thedifficult part of his task was over. Captain Spurgin decidedto take with him only sufficient rations to carry him toEllis, and send all the rest on to Howard by pack train.The circumstance gave rise to an amusing incident worthrecording. There were three garrulous braggarts among.Spurgins ^skillets, wlio were always vaunting the greatexploits and the wonderful experiences the^ had gone
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CAPTAIN- SPURGIN AXD HIS SKILLETS/ 173 tlirough. Tlie night of the arrival at Baronett Bridge,Spurgin overheard them in camp engaged in their favoritepastime, each trying to outdo the other. One of them related that when he crossed the plains withhis father years before they found the game all gone, andwere compelled to kill their horses for meat. They cameto like this food almost as well as buffalo meat. The second story teller declared that it was nothing tohave to live on horseflesh; that he had often been reducedto such straits; and on one occasion had actually been com-pelled to live on rattlesnakes. He found this flesh exceed-ingly palatable, as good as anything he ever ate. Xumber three likewise had been compelled in his longexperience to eat everything from horses to snakes, andother reptiles and varmints. But once he got into acountry where he could find absolutely nothing. It was onthe Blacktail Deer Creek, not ver)^ far from where theythen were. He was about to give up in d

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