Memories of a Bear Hunter 



Lieut. Schofield, who took charge of them and de- 

 livered them at Parrel's ranch at the mouth of 

 Trail Creek. Mrs. Carpenter then supposed her 

 husband had been killed. 



Two of the men who escaped through the timber 

 when fired upon at their camp just above Great 

 Falls, had reached the Mammoth Hot Springs, 

 where they met McCartney. One of these men 

 from Helena induced McCartney to go back with 

 him and try to find his friend, who on taking to 

 the brush had cried out to those in front, "I am 

 shot." He might be alive and wounded, he 

 thought. McCartney acceded at once. They 

 found his dead friend he had been finished by 

 the hostiles buried him and started on their 

 return. 



The trail McCartney and companion traveled, 

 via Tower Falls, branched from a much traveled 

 trail, coming down the East Fork of the Yellow- 

 stone, or Lamar River, passing that stream by 

 Baronett's Bridge. As soon as Chief Joseph's out- 

 fit reached the East Fork, he sent a strong scout- 

 ing party down the trail toward the Mammoth 

 Hot Springs, and to the lower river, thus getting 

 behind McCartney and companion. Five miles 

 below these springs, at the mouth of Gardner's 

 River, was Henderson's ranch, and at that point 



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