BIG HOLE BATTLEFIELD FROM PRAIRIE. LOOKING WEST. 



partly obscured them ; but our hands were 

 numb from the cold, and we could not wait 

 for better conditions. 



We returned to the main camp on Moose 

 creek October 10. The following day we 

 pulled up stakes and traveled to Big Hole 

 battlefield, about 16 miles distant, arriving 

 there at 4.30 p. m. I took a number of pho- 

 tographs at this interesting place before 

 night. The next morning Waugh and I 

 started, with all my dufrle % at 3.30 a. m. for 

 Wisdom, 15 miles distant, where I made the 



7 o'clock stage, and at 5.15 that afternoon 

 I reached Divide, a small station on the 

 O. R. & N. R. R., 65 miles from Wisdom. 



In the 35 days from the time I left Hamil- 

 ton, Montana, until I reached Divide I trav- 

 eled 125 miles by stage, 330 miles on horse- 

 back and about 130 miles on foot. We had 

 no mishap of any kind. The horses came 

 out of the woods in better condition than 

 when they started. 



I exposed about 100 films, most of 

 them 5x7. 



ON ANCHOR BAY, LAKE ST. CLAIR. 



H. W. BRADLEY. 



A still, warm autumn day. No ducks flying, but half a million in sight, strung out in a wind- 

 row a mile long. My friend Buck and I sitting on a log on a point jutting into Anchor bay. Two 

 other friends in an old duck hide. Along comes a little old fellow in a punt. He says: 



'Oo'll gif you hadmission for shoot hon 'Ow many you shoot? Not henny? Well, 



mah groun' ? den 



Bill Kirchner? But Ah don't see heem Ah shant charge you much. Will ah 



smoke? Ah been 



Smoke good many lak dat hout hon de bay. 



Ees dose feller your frien' ? Dat's good 

 plas to stay. 



Will Ah took leetle drink? Ah don't re- 

 fuse of 'en. 



Dat's pretty good stuff. Bon saute, mah 

 good frien'. 



You got some decoy? No? You go hon 

 dat hide. 



Dat's mine. Ah'll set 8 or 10 decoy hout- 

 side. 



You feller, an' frien' hout dhere hon de 

 bay, 



You stay .here jus' long as you ant, any- 

 way. 



Hif hainy man hask '00 hinvite you, you'll 

 say 



aroun . 

 'E's go hup Swan crick, eh? Well, dat's 



hit, you see. 

 'E see mah duck boat ; 'e hant wait for see 



me. 

 Den Bill Kirchner can pay for hit, or youp 



feller can. 

 Ah kip dis for mah frien' ; Ah'm dat kin' 'o 



man. 

 Ah got frien' hon Detroit sent hup letter 



to me, 

 Say he'll come for shoot duck. Dhere 



draw hoff, see? 

 You see sign hon de point? Say, "No 



trespass here." 

 You hant see hit ? Ah know dat ; he's blaw 



down las' year. 

 Ah don't care for dat. De lawyer man say 



Hit do jus' de same hif hit's dhere one You was hinvite by de howner— me, Qa- 

 day. briel Sharkay! 



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