Hunting the Grisly 



mishing, which resulted in nothing more seri- 

 ous to the whites than in two of them being 

 slightly wounded, the Sioux became disheart- 

 ened by the loss they were suffering and with- 

 drew, confining themselves thereafter to a 

 long range and harmless fusillade. When it 

 was dark the three men crept out to the river 

 bed, and taking advantage of the pitchy night 

 broke through the circle of their foes; they 

 managed to reach the settlements without 

 further molestation, having lost everything 

 except their rifles. 



For many years one of the most important 

 of the wilderness dwellers was the West Point 

 officer, and no man has played a greater part 

 than he in the wild warfare which opened 

 the regions beyond the Mississippi to white 

 settlement. Since 1879, there has been but 

 little regular Indian fighting in the North, 

 though there have been one or two very tedi- 

 ous and wearisome campaigns waged against 

 the Apaches in the South. Even in the North, 

 however, there have been occasional uprisings 

 which had to be quelled by the regular troops. 



After my elk hunt in September, 1891, I 

 came out through the Yellowstone Park, as 

 I have elsewhere related, riding in company 

 with a surveyor of the Burlington and Quincy 



