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Told by the Pioneers around a spruce thicket one way aud I the other. 'Ye met on the far side. At a distance of twenty yards the foremost elk stopped and turned broadside as he looked me over. ""llen I raised my gun to shoot I could not get a head sight, so turned my gun all his shoulder and fired. The elk dropped. I reloaded my gun and walked to the elk and sat down on it. The elk struggled and thre,,' me about six feet. I landed running and headed for a big snag about thirty feet away. As I went around the snag I looked back and saw the elk was down, I thought it had jumped to its feet when it flounced. I turned and shot him in the head to make sure of him this time, then loaded my gun, went back and sat down on him again. By this time the other elk had surrounded me and began to show signs of fight, stamping their feet, setting their hair up the wrong way, shaking their heads and snorting. They came so close, I stood up and swnng my gun around me. I could feel their breath strike me when they snorted. They would come up within six or eight feet of me, shake their heads and snort, then back off a few steps, then come up again. They kept this up for several minutes, and I think that at times there were ten or twelve elk within ten feet of me, with their heads toward me. You may think I will sav I wasn't scared. I will • • not, for I aim this to be a true story all the way through. As I remember it to this day, I was scared and would have ginn all I had at that time to ha,-e been safe on the outside of that ring of elk; but they did not jump on me, but began to back up farther and farther, so I went to work and and removed the intestines, which took me about twenty minutes. The elk were still within gunshot. I went back to the beach to get help to pack out my elk meat. When I got back to the beach my partner had come up from our lower cabin and found me gone, so he had started out to hunt me. He had just passed the mouth of the trail that I came out on. I saw his track and knew it, so I looked back up the beach about half a mile and saw him. I fired my gun and he heard it and came back. When I told ~im where I had been he gave me a hard scolding for going out alone WIthout telling anybody I was going. As good luck comes m~- way, an Indian came alono' g'oing down the beach so I sent word to two other 0' , hunters to come up early next morning and get some elk meat and help pack it out. Close to my cabin was a little prairie and two In- • dian ponies were staying there, so we took the two ponies out to where I had killed the elk, quartered it, cut wide strips of elk hide, tied two quarters together and hung them across the ponies' backs and packed our elk in to my cabin and there cut it up, and took care of the meat. We gave the other hunters a quarter apiece for helping get it out of the woods. 'Ye had elk meat to last us a year. 105
Told by the Pioneers In the fall of 1865 a man by the name of John Miller wanted me to go with him to the mouth of the Colorado River, where the sea otter were more plentiful and the water was smoother to shoot on. Miller wanted to start a little store and have me hunt sea otter. He thought we could make a fortune in a few years, so I concluded to go. 'Ve were to meet in Portland in three weeks. I wanted to visit my folks in Oregon and he to get ready to go. I went to Portland to meet Miller. I got a letter from him saying he had been disappointed in not getting his money and could not go, so I gave up going and went back up to Salem to the Oregon State Fair. While at the fair I concluded to rent a farm and try farming. So I rented the "Widow Cooper's farm and stock, four miles west of Monmouth in Polk County, Oregon, and on December 24th, 1865, I married :!\linervia .Tane Cooper. In the spring of 1867 we moved to Jackson County, Oregon, and located on the desert, twelve miles east of Jacksonville, and went to work to make a home. I built a house and barn and fenced in forty acres in the mountains. East of Jacksonville is where the Lost Cabin Gold mines were located, so it was believed by many. In the winter of 1868 a miner by the name of Ike Skeaters thought he had found the Lost Cabin mines, so he came down to the valley to the home of his brother-in-law, took him and two other friends and went back. I and my two brothers, Turner and Hugh, concluded we would trail them and find the mine. So we took our guns and packs and struck out southeast until we got into the foothills, then we circled to the northeast to find their trail. It was snowing when we left home, and by the time we got ten miles in the foothills the snow was ten inches deep. 'Ve came to a place among the chaparral thickets where cougar tracks were so thick we could not track them, so we scattered out to look for the cougar. I had not gone far till I saw one coming toward me. He stopped, looking at me, and when about sixty yards away I shot at it. The ball struck a bush and missed the cougar. At the crack of the gun the cougar commenced to wave his tail and walk toward me. I loaded m~' gun in a hurry. Just as I was putting on a cap, the cougar had come half way to me. My brother, Turn, had come up behind me and asked what I had shot at. Immediatelv mv brother looked • • back and a cougar was following him. He turned and fired at it just as it jumped, and missed it. vVe looked around some more, but not wanting to lose too much time, we went on looking for the trail. About three 0 'clock we struck their trail on the north side of Antelope Creek going east. By this time the snow was over our knees. Before dark we came to their camp. vVe all went to work to build a fivecornered cabin. 'Ve built it sixteen by eighteen feet with a good shake 106
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INDEX Benton, 149 Benton, Maine, 16
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INDEX Cold Spring Canyon, 13 Colfax
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INDEX Engle, A. W., Mrs., 51 Engle,
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INDEX Hays, Logan, 82 Hearn, Lamber
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INDEX Ketchikan, Alaska, 127 Kimbal
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INDEX Montgomery, William (Bill), 1
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INDEX Second National Bank, Colfax,
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INDEX Touchet Valley, 134, 135, 150
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INDEX Yakima River, 15 Yakima Valle
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