318 ANECDOTES OF TENDOI. 



he had discovered a place high up in the mountains where 

 game of all kind seemed very plentiful, bear-sign especially 

 being very thick. There were, he said, large thickets of wild 

 raspberries and blueberries, of which the bears are very fond, 

 and round some of these the ground was trampled by them 

 like a sheep-pen. 



As Fishel had directed any letters coming to Martinsdale to 

 be forwarded to Reed's ranche, I determined to leave the 

 others to move camp while I rode to the ranche and got our 

 letters. On getting in I found two very rough men staying 

 on their way from Carroll to Bozeman. They were Indian 

 traders, and had brought a quantity of the vile stuff which is 

 sold by them as whiskey, and this they had all been drinking 

 for some days, and were more than half drunk when I arrived. 

 My letters had not come, so that I had to wait for them, and 

 I passed most of my time with Tendoi in the Bannock camp, 

 a good Indian being a preferable companion to such men as 

 there were at the ranche. The chief and I got to be such 

 friends that he lent me his war-horse, a fine roan of about 

 fifteen hands, to ride, which was a great favour. 



I heard a story of Tendoi which shows what kind of man he 

 was. When the tribe some months before had held a council as 

 to whether they should go on the war-path or not, and more 

 than half had decided to do so, Tendoi and his son had gone in 

 the night and had warned all the neighbouring settlers, who 

 in their turn had warned others, so that when the hostiles had 

 visited their ranches the owners had fled, and the intended 

 massacre did not take place. They risked a great deal in doing 

 this, for had it become known they would probably have been 



