it was? Yes, it was stone arrowhead. How did he know that? White 

 Bear's answer has always interested me, as showing the value of oral 

 tradition among people that cannot write. He said: "Our old men say 

 that, a long time ago, our people had no horses and no guns, and they 

 shot buffalo and other game with bow and arrow. As they had no iron, 

 they made the arrowheads of stone and that's one of them." 



Dr. Neilson, the surgeon of the party, and I had to be starting home 

 and so we left the outfit in the Upper Geyser Basin under my Brother's 

 charge. Though most eager to get home, I was yet reluctant to leave 

 the party, which had kept together so harmoniously for so many weeks. 

 I fancy that no member of the expedition ever forgot the experiences 

 of that summer, or failed to look back on them with pleasure. We 

 rode down to the Mammoth Hot Springs, leaving our horses there for 

 the party to take with them and took the train for Fort Keogh, where 

 I finished up my military business and we both got our baggage out of 

 the storehouse. One day sufficed for this and we then proceeded to our 

 homes as fast as the trains could take us, which, in those days, was at 

 no very giddy rate of speed, if such a word can be used for their 

 deliberate movements. A few fast trains had been put on in the East, 

 but in the West the service was still very slow. 



For each of the two succeeding summers, I went West for a com- 

 paratively short trip, short, that is, in time, though measured by results, 

 those were among our most successful ventures. 



EXPEDITION OF 1 885 



George Butler and Harry Paul, of the Class of 1884, who had been 

 with me in the Big Horn trip of that summer, came to me the following 

 year, with the proposal that I should take a small party West, for five 

 or six weeks, as a vacation journey. I agreed to do this, especially as 

 my dear friend, Frank Speir, was able to join us. Three of us went, by 

 way of Denver, to Salt Lake City, and I was astonished to see how 

 rapidly settlement and agriculture had extended westward through 

 Kansas in the three years since I had last seen that region. At Chicago, 

 I called on General Schofield, successor to General Sheridan, who re- 

 ceived me very courteously and gave me the orders to post-commanders 

 that I should need. It was well that I took this step, as, otherwise, we 

 should have been in a position of great disadvantage, or, in terser 

 phrase, "in a hole." 



After a very pleasant visit to Salt Lake City, where each of us had 

 friends, we turned back to Fort Bridger, which had been regarrisoned 



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