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ledged that he had been attempting to shoot one of the sheels 

 that we had loaded with grasshoppers to use as bait for trout. 



The ranch near which we camped is the old Jones Ranch, 

 now owned by a Mr. Draper, who, by combining several occu- 

 pations, is able to make a good living in the midst of a desert. 

 Living with Mr. Draper at this ranch was a most interesting 

 personage, Mr. A. J. Reynolds. Mr. Reynolds is almost en- 

 tirely deaf, so that it was difficult to question him ; but once 

 started, it was easy for him to relate anecdote after anecdote 

 concerning frontier life in the Northwest. We gained many 

 facts concerning his life, including a romance that would well 

 serve as the basis of a thrilling story of life in the West in 

 early days. Suffice it here to say that Mr. Reyolds never 

 married but became a wanderer in that vast wilderness and 

 played a noble part in its preparation for civilized life. He 

 came into the Northwest in '43 with the first emigrant train 

 that crossed with wagons to Oregon. This was shortly after 

 Dr. Marcus Whitman crossed the plains, and he helped to bury 

 Dr. Whitman and Mrs. Whitman in '47. He was one of the 

 party that pursued the Indians who had taken all the other 

 women prisoners ; helped recapture them and killed one of the 

 leading chiefs. All the following winter he and sixty others 

 fought the Indians and came near starving to death, for most 

 of the time there was nothing but horse flesh to eat. 



The Indian story of the cause of the murdering of Dr. and 

 Mrs. Whitman is that the whites gave the Indians the measles. 

 The Indian method of curing disease was to steam themselves 

 over heated stones placed in water, then to jump immediately 

 into cold river water. When those afflicted with the measles 

 tried this remedy they died, and a priest told them that the 

 medicine that Dr. Whitman gave them was poisoning them, 

 then they killed Dr. and Mrs. Whitman in revenge. 



For a number of years Mr. Reynolds was a guide to the Yel- 

 lowstone Park regions and he knew that country and Montana 

 perfectly. He acted as Hayden's guide in his survey of the 

 Park and told anecdotes of Hayden. During one of the last, 

 probably the last Indian trouble in that region, he and three 

 others were attacked in the Park bv the Nez Perces. He owed 



