Hunting at High Altitudes 



believed that the real cause of their bitterness was 

 the fact that a number of the Nez Perces' dead were 

 scalped by Howard's troops. There has been some 

 controversy as to how this came to be done. Cer- 

 tainly it was against the orders issued by General 

 Howard. Very likely the scalps were taken by the 

 Bannock scouts employed by Howard, and it may 

 very well be that some of his white civilian scouts 

 had a part in it. That scalping was forbidden by 

 General Howard, and that the act was much regretted 

 by him, cannot be doubted. It is probable that this 

 is what cost the lives of all the civilians that were 

 killed in the Nez Perce War. 



25. John Bean was born in Maine, and as a small 

 boy moved with his family to Wisconsin. As soon 

 as he became large enough to carry a gun, he be- 

 came so enthusiastic about field sports that he could 

 not be induced to go to school. When only a boy, he 

 went West, and in early manhood dropped out of 

 touch with his family, and was not again heard of 

 until he was a Government scout at Ft. Ellis, Mon- 

 tana. Afterward he settled on a ranch near Bozeman 

 and went out with eastern hunting parties. About 

 thirty years ago he was out with the Barings, and 

 with Chas. R. Flint. About 1903 he moved from 

 Montana to San Jose, California, where he now re- 

 sides at 389 North Whitney Street. He is said to 

 have prospered in business, which has to do with 

 automobiles, and to be quite well off. 



26. Baronett's Bridge, the first bridge across the 



270 



