Hunting at High Altitudes 



My neighbor, Richard Ashworth, had filed on the 

 land around the mouth of this creek, and George 

 Marquette was constructing the necessary ranch 

 buildings just above the mouth of the creek. 

 Among his other belongings, George owned an 

 "ornery 11 bench-legged dog. 



The men in charge of the seventy-five beeves 

 already collected, crossed the cattle just above the 

 mouth of this creek, the cattle coming out of the 

 river bottom on to the bench just opposite the tent 

 occupied by George and his dog. As soon as 

 the leaders of the herd emerged from the bottom, 

 the dog burst out at them, barking fiercely. Fat 

 cattle are usually easily alarmed, and in this case 

 the leaders were greatly frightened. They turned 

 square to the right, ran at full speed toward the 

 gorge at the mouth of the creek, the others of the 

 herd as they came to the top of the bench madly 

 following the leaders. The leaders, naturally 

 hesitating on the brink, were swept into the gorge, 

 followed by the balance of the herd. The finale 

 was that the gorge was literally filled up and 

 bridged over with a mass of fat beeves of 1,200 

 to 1,500 pounds weight, about fifty head being 

 trampled to death. 



From my knowledge of grizzly bears, I knew 

 that all the bears from the surrounding mountains 



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