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Sy, AT THE PAINTED WOODS. 
bullet. A party went with him to the scene of his 
adventure and found the ‘‘Bull of the Woods” lying 
dead with a broken neck. 
Editor Kellogg who was present among the campers, 
and being press correspondent for the Twin City papers 
telegraphed the disgraceful finale tothe nervy and adroit 
beast which had so long held-his ground and defied the 
smartest of his enemies, only in the end to die from 
the hands of a novice,—and a ‘‘kid’’ at that. 
Upon my advent to the Painted Woods region in 1869, 
there were two great cottonwood trees in which the 
eagles nested and hatched out their young every year. 
One of tiese nests was that of the war eagle at a point 
on the Missouri bottom between Otter and Deer Creek 
just above the Square Buttes in what is now known as 
Oliver County, and the other being of the bald eagle 
specie had their nest on the giant old cottonwood tree 
that composed the original painted tree group which as 
yet bore the red paint daubing on the rough bark at 
their base—which according to the accepted story of 
the wild Indians’ days, had given name to the lower 
Painted Woods section of the Upper Missouri. The first 
named tree was destroyed by the mighty ice gorge 
of 1873. The Indians said that the eagles had regularly 
nested in these two trees for at least thirty years previous 
to my first sight of them. 
About the first of June, 1873, Richmond and 
Raney—two hunters —and myself, rigged up and went 
to the painted tree group, for the purpose of climbing 
the tree to secure the young eaglets and ty the Indians 
plan of rearing and taming them. 
We found the female eagle on her nest but the distance 
