CHARLES I. YOUNGBLOOi:). I9I 



in every direction. I did not see him until 

 late in the evenino- when he came in sigiit. 

 You can imagine how glad I was to see him 

 when I tell you that I had not had a bite to 

 eat since he had left me, over twenty-four 

 hours before, as I had no matches to start a 

 tire to cook it with. When he came up I got 

 a bite to eat, and we loaded up our m^eat and 

 started down Goose Creek. We had scared}' 

 started when it began to spit snow and indi- 

 cate a snow storm. We soon stopped and 

 camped in a draw and in the morning w^e 

 found that the snow had drifted around our 

 tent to the depth of about four feet, though on 

 the level it was only about six inches deep. 

 We got out and started, but it was so cold 

 and disagreeable that we had to stop again, 

 and we soon found ourselves snow-bound. 

 When it cleared off we began to make prep- 

 arations to move out, but found our wagon so 

 badly "snowed in'' that it took us some time 

 to shovel it out. After a hard tug w^e finall}' 

 got into Wallace, just two weeks from the 

 time we started. 



