Memories of a Bear Hunter 



head of Boulder River, where grizzly bears were 

 supposed to occur. This route lay through the 

 Crow Indian reservation, but as permission to pass 

 over it was always asked of the agent of the Crows, 

 I was always treated well, and not annoyed by 

 beggars. When Indians visited the camp they 

 were always kindly received, and if it was near 

 meal time they were always fed with the best the 

 camp afforded. 



We made camp on the east fork of Boulder 

 River about the 28th of September, and remained 

 there until the iQth of November. Elk were 

 fairly abundant, but deer were not seen. At this 

 time I had in my employ a man named Milligan, 

 who was married to a Crow woman and lived on a 

 ranch at the mouth of Deer Creek. He cared for 

 the horses. I promised that if he would go to the 

 ranch for a wagon, enough elk could be killed for 

 his winter meat, and about that time a band of 

 elk wandered to the vicinity of the camp and 

 seven were killed and their meat well taken care 

 of for him. At this camp only two bears were 

 killed without adventure. As the Crow Indians 

 did not hunt grizzly bears, it was hoped that they 

 would be found abundant on the headwaters of 

 the Boulder. 



On the 9th of November camp was moved about 

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