This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ...them. The facts of the following thrilling adventure, furnished by my old Kentucky friend White Calfee, who has for the last iive years been acting as a scout and freighter in the Yellowstone country, were originally furnished to the New York Herald. Mr, Oalfee is one of the most veracious of men, and I have full ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ...them. The facts of the following thrilling adventure, furnished by my old Kentucky friend White Calfee, who has for the last iive years been acting as a scout and freighter in the Yellowstone country, were originally furnished to the New York Herald. Mr, Oalfee is one of the most veracious of men, and I have full corroboration of the narrative from otheisources. It is given as characteristic of the many hair-breadth escapes from Indians in the Yellowstone valley within the last rear. A Mr. Maxwell, with his wife, daughter and four men, started from Miles City, with the intention of settling on the Little Missouri, near where the old Stanley military road crosses that stream--a section of country, by the way, which, though long considered a barren waste, has been ascertained to be rich and fertile. After they had been out several days, and just as they were crossing the O'Fallon hills, Mrs. Maxwell descried two objects ahead which she took to be antelopes, but which a field-glass showed to be Indians. Mr. Maxwell at once halted his party, and soon discovered he was in the vicinity of a village of about forty lodges of hostile Indians. The wagons were turned back, and the party retreated towards O'Fallon creek. The Indians followed, but did not attack, and Mr. Maxwell, having reached timber and water, selected a high point of land and went into camp. A ravine ran around three sides of the camp, and the entire night was spent in fortifying it. The bluffs did not run close to the water or timber, and the party had to take position about two hundred yards from water or wood. As good supply as possible of both articles was laid in during the night, and the party waited anxiously for daylight and the battle they knew it would usher in. About eleven o'clock the nex...
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