TRACKS AND TRACKING 



would come along if a couple more fellows could 

 be found, which, by the way, he did not believe 

 possible, for the country was not settled then as 

 it is now. But it happened that two men did 

 come along just at that moment, and Johnson 

 soon convinced them that profitable business was 

 ahead if they joined in the pursuit. So the four 

 went, taking a straight cut toward Horsethief, a 

 section of the country southeast of the Big 

 Snowy Mountains, where they thought the 

 Indians would make a halt. 



About three o'clock that afternoon they over- 

 took the " Reds," but found to their chagrin that 

 a dozen bucks were ready to give battle, while 

 still four or five were left to attend to the stolen 

 horses, and as neither Johnson nor any of his 

 companions were burning for a fight, in which 

 there was no promise of getting anything but 

 bullet holes, Johnson decided that he would 

 rather go home without the horses. 



In the Bull Mountains a hunter followed a 

 wolf trail into a ravine from which there was 

 no escape for the " varmint " except past him, 

 and he was promptly attacked by a half-dozen 



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