Hunting at High Altitudes 



Cone Butte and Black Butte or Buffalo Heart 

 Mountain, as it was also called, are both volcanic 

 masses thrown up through the prairie as so commonly 

 occurs in this neighborhood. A break in the hills at 

 the head of one of the forks of Box Elder used to 

 be called Ross's Cut-Off and gave passage to frequent 

 parties of Indians. 



Many years ago, in buffalo days, I climbed to the 

 top of Black Butte and found on it a lookout shelter, 

 built by Indians. It was composed of blocks of 

 trachyte, laid in two rows, perhaps two feet apart, 

 and these two rows supported flat slabs of the trachyte, 

 which would keep off rain or snow. A bed of pine 

 boughs covered the rocks which constituted the floor 

 of this shelter. It had been in use within a few weeks, 

 for the pine needles in it were entirely fresh. At this 

 particular time Sioux were traveling through the 

 country and taking horses and pretty much anything 

 else that they could get. 



37. A. L. Reed came into Montana from Colorado 

 in 1868, and from 1868 to 1871 was Indian agent at 

 Ft. Browning on the lower Milk River, near where 

 Dodson Station on the Great Northern Railway now 

 is, opposite the mouth of People's Creek. Ft. Brown- 

 ing was the Indian agency for the Gros Ventres of 

 the Prairie, and some of the Assiniboines, and was 

 afterward superseded by Ft. Belknap, on the south 

 side of Milk River, opposite the present town of 

 Harlem. Reed was popular with the upper Gros 

 Ventres Indians of Algonquin stock and, after los- 

 ing his position as Indian agent, established with 



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