Memories of a Bear Hunter 



management of the campaign. Whenever he 

 passed an important trail leading toward the white 

 settlements, a scouting party was sent down that 

 trail far enough to avoid surprise. George Heren- 

 deen had been sent out from Fort Ellis to learn the 

 whereabouts of these Indians, and in going out to 

 Henry's Lake, where he expected to find traces of 

 them, he passed at the crossing of the Madison a 

 camp of some fifteen or twenty miners from the 

 Pony mines, acting as scouts, and with the further 

 intention of making a dash on the camp of hostiles 

 to secure a lot of their horses. Herendeen reached 

 the vicinity of Henry's Lake about the time that 

 the Indians arrived there, climbed a tree and saw 

 enough to satisfy him that this was the hostile outfit 

 he was in search of. Returning by the camp of 

 miners on the Madison about twelve miles from 

 Henry's Lake he warned them of the situation, 

 and advised vigilance on their part. They ex- 

 pressed perfect confidence in their ability to take 

 care of themselves, and the probability is that they 

 at once went to sleep. Late at night a band of 

 Joseph's scouts came down the trail, discovered the 

 camp, and, after locating the horses, by a fusilade 

 scattered the miners and made off with their horses, 

 much to the miners' astonishment. They were left 

 afoot on the wrong side of the Madison River. 



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