Notes on Memories of a Bear Hunter 



After the Indian trade at the mouth of the Mussel- 

 shell had proved unsatisfactory, Clendenin bought out 

 Black and moved his stock of goods up the Missouri 

 River to Carroll. He traded there for three or four 

 years, after 1874, before closing out. It is my im- 

 pression that in the year 1875 ne na d a small trading 

 post with a very slight stock of goods at the mouth of 

 the Judith River, which he called Fort Claggett. This 

 was to catch the trade of the wandering Gros Ventres 

 of the Prairie, with whom the lower valley of the 

 Judith was a favorite camping place. 



After closing out the business at Musselshell, Clen- 

 denin became interested in the Barker Mining District 

 in the southeastern part of Cascade County, Montana, 

 and built there a smelter in which Power and others 

 were interested. Clendenin was interested in the 

 mines of this section and operated one known as the 

 Clendenin Lode. While he was inspecting this in 

 company with Louis Heitman and others, in 1882, a 

 tunnel caved in and killed him. 



20. John J. Healy was for many years a noted 

 character in Ft. Benton and the country to the North. 

 He was an Irishman by birth, who as a young man 

 had enlisted as a soldier and been stationed in the 

 West. After his discharge he mined and traded, and 

 worked in Northern Montana, where he was most 

 highly respected and very successful. He it was who 

 organized the famous Ispitsi Cavalry, and who kept 

 order in that northern country until the Northwest 

 Mounted Police came into it. After a time Montana 

 and Alberta became too crowded for Healy, and he 



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