Notes on Memories of a Bear Hunter 



They managed to pick a quarrel with him in Jew 

 Jake's saloon, and he was killed by Harvey Logan, 

 chief of the band. Logan escaped and was never 

 arrested for the crime. The widow and her children 

 are now raising fruit on the Columbia River, Oregon. 



'Tike Landusky, a true friend and a man of many 

 sterling qualities, deserved a better fate than to be 

 murdered by a band of outlaws." 



Of the horse purchased by Colonel Pickett, "Billy" 

 Hofer says : "He was named Pike, and was the only 

 horse I ever saw who actually hunted, virtually inde- 

 pendent of the man who was riding him. Often he 

 would discover game before the rider and try to make 

 his rider understand that there was something in sight. 

 He was the only horse I ever saw who would try to 

 keep his body hid; he would sneak up behind a tree 

 and peep out to one side, almost like a human being. 

 He used to like to find choice feeding places a little 

 to one side of the main band. He seemed to like to 

 keep such finds to himself. Now and then his pro- 

 pensity for being secretive would cause him to lose 

 the band. I have seen him, as soon as the horses 

 were turned loose, feed away from the others till he 

 got behind a bushy tree, and then work out of sight, 

 keeping the tree between him and the other horses. 

 He would look back to see if the others were watch- 

 ing him or following him ; then he would slip behind 

 a clump of little trees or round a hill, occasionally 

 peeping out to see if other horses were in sight; if 

 they worked away he would be obliged to follow, be- 

 cause he did not want to be left entirely alone. 

 Several times when he lost the other horses at night 



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