Memories of a Bear Hunter 



the hostile scouts. There lay their pack outfit, 

 which they had left behind on the 2d or 3d of 

 September, as before narrated. Among the aban- 

 doned outfit was a miner's shovel, which these 

 brave men had taken along to bury their friend, if 

 dead. We camped that night on the lower Black- 

 tail Creek. 



Early on the following day we passed the place 

 where Go>ff and Leonard, the two scouts, had been 

 ambuscaded. The willow brush was all "shot up," 

 and near the trail was the dead sorrel horse that 

 Leonard had ridden. We examined the vicinity 

 of this ambuscade for the brave Indian boy who, 

 as he fell, was seen to draw his revolver. His 

 body was not found. That vicinity was afterward 

 thoroughly searched, but no trace of this boy 

 could be found. His fate has not been revealed. 

 During the day's travel there were splendid moun- 

 tain views from the trail. 



In the afternoon of September 15, the trail de- 

 scended to the valley of the Yellowstone and passed 

 within one mile of Baronett's Bridge, 26 across 

 which Howard's command passed on the 5th of 

 September in pursuit of the Nez Perces. We soon 

 dropped into the trail taken by that command and 

 followed it back to Tower Falls. These falls are 

 named from the tower-like ledges of rock that 



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