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CHAPTER XXII. 



Resolve to go to the Judith Basin. Colonel P agrees to accompany 



me. Start for Carroll. Delay at Bismarck. Have some shooting. 

 Journey by steamer up the Missouri. Land to hunt every day. Come 

 upon an old hunter. His history and end. The remaining Indians 

 concerned in the Minnesota massacre. Arrival at Buford. Freak of 

 a lieutenant. Symonds joins me. Start with Major Reed for Judith 



Basin. The ways of Indian agents described. Join Colonel P in 



camp. Good news of game. Adventure with a bear. Description of 

 the Judfth Basin. Hunting mountain-sheep. Reed and Bowles at 

 home. Visit the Crows' camp. Go with them to meet the Bannocks, 

 Buy a horse from the Bannocks. 



WHEN returning from a duck-shooting trip in Dacotah in the 

 winter of 1877, I travelled with a Colonel Clendenin, who had 

 spent the summer and autumn at Fort Benton, on the Upper 

 Missouri, and was now on his way to Washington for the 

 winter. The conversation turned on sport, and he spoke 

 enthusiastically of the beautiful scenery and the great quantity 

 of game in a portion of Montana called the Judith Basin, 

 lying near the Mussel-shell River, which runs into the 

 Yellowstone. I had hunted years before to the north of this 

 place, and I retained very pleasant recollections of my trip, so 



