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Told by the Pioneers roof. The evening we got there I killed two deer close to camp. By the time we got our cabin built the snow was three or four feet deep and still falling, so we stayed there seven days and went home to wait for the snow to go off. In the summer of 1868, five of us went up in the Butte mountains bear hunting. We took along a wagon, two horses and saddles. While we were all out hunting, fire ran through our camp and burned up our harness and saddles, so two of the boys had to ride thirty-five miles bareback to get harness to haul our wagon home. ·When we got home we found a grizzly had killed fourteen pigs for me and one hog for my brother, Turn. A few days later I was out looking after my hogs and ran onto a grizzly bear. I ran home to get my gun and dogs. My brother, Turn, and John Cooper went back with me. When we got to where I had left the bear, Jim ::\fatney had come out looking for his hogs. He had two good dogs and his gun, I had four good hounds and a cur dog. We started the dogs after the bear. They stopped the bear in about half a mile. I was on my little mare and the other boys were afoot. \Vhen the dogs stopped the bear, I rode up within forty feet, dropped the bridle reins over the horn of my saddle and raised my rifle to shoot. The bear made a charge at tll(> dogs, toward me, and the mare wheeled so quickly I almost fell off. She jumped over chaparral four feet high, and me hanging on. She ran two hundred yards before I could get straightened in the saddle and stop her. I could not make her go back toward the bear, so I led her to a tree and went on foot. Ey the time I got back .Jim Matney had gotten one shot in the bear, and I got the second shot. Every time he saw one of us he would make a charge and we would have to climb a tree. At one time my brother climbed a tree ten inches in diameter. The bear rose up on the tree and struck it with his paw such a lick it almost jarred Turn down. Every time it would see the smoke of a gun it would run and look for the man. \Ve shot him thirteen (13) times before we killed him. The fight lasted about three hours. He traveled about half a mile during the fight through scattering oak timber and chaparral brush. Now I will tell you how big he was. He measured sixteen (16) inches across from one eye to the other, the bottom of his front foot was 11 to 13 inches, his toe nails were four and five inches long. We rolled him up skids into a common wagon bed on his back, his nose touching the front endgate, and his hamstrings laid on the rear endgate, with his feet sticking over. He filled the wagon bed tight. \Ve guessed he would weigh over 2,000 pounds. In the fall of 1868 my brother, Hugh, and I went out one morning hefore breakfast, still hunting, to get a deer. \Ve ran across a grizzly 107
Told by the Pioneers bear trail. \Ve trailed it into a chaparral thicket, in a hollow. The thicket covered about an acre. The bear was in the thicket and we had no dog to drive him out, so I told Hugh to watch and I would go in and drive it out. The brush was so thick I had to crawl on mv hands and • knees. I jumped it about the middle of the patch, and. when within about thirty feet, it snorted at me and ran out. Hugh shot it and then hollered for me to hurry out. It was up and going again when I g'ot out where I could see it. It was g'oing up the hill over a hundred yards away. I fired and it rolled quite a way down the hill, then got up and started toward us. We got to two trees we could climb safely and reloaded our guns. By that time the bear had gotten into a ditch the water had made, two feet deep, and four feet wide with a chaparral bunch hanging over the ditch. Here he made his stand, ready to fight. We walked down toward it with a tree picked for each of us if it charged. We walked within forty feet. I shot it in the ear. It whirled clear around and stood in the same place, popping its teeth together and growling. We shot it by turns, four shots in the ear, and the fifth shot I tried for the neck bone. Then it went down. The four shots in the ear could be covered with a half dollar and passed under the brain. We dissected its head to find where the bullets went. This was a two or three year old grizzly. One day we were out hunting for deer and came on to two cougars where they had killed a deer and almost eaten it. Our dogs put them up trees and we shot them in the head, so they would not cripple our dogs when they came down. Deer were so plentiful in the Rogue River country at that time we could kill all we 'wanted without going very far in the hills. In the spring of 1869 I sold out my improvements and mO"ed back to Bawfaw in Lewis County, \Vashington, to the place I am now living on. I rented the Decker place one year. By that time I had cleared enough ground to get along without renting. For a good many years I had to work out in the summer time and trapped and hunted in the winter. So the clearing of my farm went slowly. I had quite a family and it kept me hustling to feed and clothe them. I had a dog I took with me trapping and hunting. His Harne was Frank and he deserves a place in this book. I had a string of traps that took me three days to make the round of them all. I was trapping principally for beaver, mink and fresh water otter. My dog, Frank, would go with me and stand and watch me set my traps and bait them with meat. He never got in a trap or bothered the bait. If he came across a fresh cougar or wildcat track, he would put it up a tree, and I would shoot it. Some days he would tree three cougars. I had him trained to slow-track deer, if I were with him. A deer might 108
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Told by the Pioneers FOREWORD 'rhe
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Logging in Mason County Told by the
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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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'SDEX Polk, 1 'i 5 Polk County, Ore
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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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