Hunting at High Altitudes 



1878. 



31. Some years before in the summer of 1875 

 this precise country had been passed over by a small 

 expedition under the command of Col. Wm. Ludlow, 

 then Chief Engineer, Department of Dakota. His re- 

 port to the War Department of a "Reconnaissance 

 from Carroll, Montana Territory, on the Upper Mis- 

 souri, to the Yellowstone National Park and Return" 

 was published by the War Department, in 1876. It 

 contains reports by Colonel Ludlow and two of his 

 assistants on the mammals, birds and geology of the 

 region passed over, and of two or three side trips. 

 There are plates of a number of newly discovered 

 fossils, and maps of what was then known of the 

 region where Colonel Pickett hunted later. 



Col. Wm. Ludlow, as is well known, served with 

 most distinguished honor during the war with Spain, 

 became Major General, and died a number of years 

 ago. He was one of the most brilliant, attractive 

 and high-minded officers that ever served the United 

 States, and his untimely death was deeply lamented. 



The town of Carroll was situated in a broad bottom 

 on the south bank of the Missouri River, just south 

 of the Little Rocky Mountains, and three or four 

 miles east of the mouth of Little Rocky Mountain 

 Creek. For several years it was a place of some im- 

 portance. There were a number of trading stores 

 there, one of them at one time kept by Joe Kipp, and 

 around these stores had grown up a very small settle- 

 ment. In 1875 it was a typical new western town. 



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