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j VOL. XXTY.-Nb. 8. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Frank North. 



Through Two-Ocean Pass.— rx. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



TheBucktailin Florida.— n. 



Rambles in the Wilderness. 

 Natural History. 



The Birds of Michigan. 



Horns of the Female Caribou. 



Prairie Dog Wells. 

 Camp-Fire Flicserings. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Reminiscences of Camp Armi- 

 scead. 



In Goshen's Hole. 



Hints and Wrinkles. 



Maine Taxidermists. 



My Gun . 



The Inoffensive Canuck. 



New Jersey Song: Birds. 



To Cure Gun-Shyness. 



More about the Sportsman. 



Some Remarkable Shots. 



The Bore of Shotguns. 



Philadelphia Notes. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



On the Track of l 'Wawayanda. ' ' 



The Holmes Dinner. 



How we Caught Him. 



Croppie or Crappie? 



Sea and River Fishing. 



Snelling Hooks. 



The Model Fishing Rod and Line 



Midwinter in the Adirondacks. 

 The Kennel. 



Cross-as-Thunder. 



Dogs by Express. 



The New Orleans Dog Show. 



New Haven Dog Show. 



1 he Pittsburgh Piece of Paper. 



Kennel Management. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Merit in Small Calibers. 



A Curious Bullet. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 



National Guu Association. 

 Canoeing. 



A Cruise up the Hackensack. 



Cruise of the Stonington C. C. 



A Pacific Coast Meet. 



Toronto C. C. 



Single vs. Double. 



Philadelphia C. C. Camp-Fire. 

 Yachting. 



Cruise of the Cora.— I. 



The New Sloop. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 

 Publishers' Department. 



With its compact type and in its permanently enlarged form 

 of twenty-eight pages this journal furnishes each wee/c a larger 

 amount of first-class matter relating to angling, snooting, the 

 Kennel, yachting, canoeing, and kindred subjects, than is con- 

 tained in all other American publications put together. 



FRANK NORTH. 



\ /l"AJOR FRANK NORTH died at Columbus, Nebraska, 

 -'-*-*- on Saturday, March 14. He was only forty-four years 

 old, but bad undoubtedly had a wider and more varied ex- 

 perience among Indians on the frontier than any man now 

 living. 



Frank North was born in Ohio, and when about fifteen 

 years of age accompanied his family westward to Council 

 Bluffs,' Iowa, and a little later across the Missouri into Ne- 

 braska. Here they settled not far from the old Pawnee 

 village, and Frank North as he grew up formed close rela- 

 tions with the tribe. His strong character early brought him 

 to the notice of their principal men, and before attaining 

 manhood he had become a person of influence in the coun- 

 cils of the Pawnee Nation. 



Early in his career, though not until after his qualifica- 

 tions for the title had been well proved, he was named by 

 tbe tribe "Pawnee La-shar" (the Pawnee chief) a designation 

 only given to one other white man, Gen. John C. Fremont. 

 He was thus in name as well as in fact, the ruler of this once 

 great nation. 



About the year 1863, in command of a party of Pawnee 

 scouts, he accompanied General Connor on an exploring ex- 

 peditition to the then unknown Powder River country. 

 While on this expedition he saw a great deal of hard fight- 

 ing, on several occasions narrowly escaping with his life. 



Later, during the building of the Union Pacific Railway, 

 the depredations of the hostile Sioux, Cheyennes and Ara- 

 pahoes became so serious along the line of the road that the 

 Government authorized Mr. North to enlist a battalion of 

 scouts from the Pawnee Nation, and offered him the com- 

 mand with the rank of major. He was at this time the 

 originator of the plan of using Indians to fight Indians, a 



method which has been pursued with more or less success 

 ever since. 



Several companies of these scouts were so enlisted, and 

 for years the battalion did good service on the plains and 

 in the mountains in Nebraska, Kansas and Wyoming. The 

 amount of property saved to the Government, the settlers 

 and the railroad through the efforts of Major North's com- 

 mand can scarcely be computed. In all this service of 

 almost constant fighting, extending over a period of more 

 than ten years, he never lost a man on the battle field, 

 and this caused him to be regarded by the Pawnees as in 

 some way divinely favored. 



The secret of Major North's success in commanding the 

 Pawnees, who loved him as much as they respected him, 

 lay in the unvarying firmness, justice, patience and kind- 

 ness with which he treated them. He never demanded 

 anything unreasonable of them, but when he gave an order, 

 even though obedience involved great peril or perhaps ap- 

 peared to mean certain death, tbe command must be carried 

 out. He was their commander, but at the same time their 

 brother and friend. Above all, he was their leader. Tn 

 going into battle he never said "Go," but always "Come." 

 It is little wonder, then, that the devotion felt for him by all 

 the Pawnee Nation, and especially by the men who had 

 served under him in battle, was as steadfast as it was 

 touching. 



The Pawnee scouts were last called out in 1 876, when 

 General Crook fought the hostile Cheyennes in the Powder 

 River country, and, led by Major North and his brother, 

 they made the famous charge on the village which inflicted on 

 the hostiles the crushing blow from which they never re- 

 covered. How he held his men under fire that day, when 

 the bullets were raining on them from the hillsides, was 

 told in a letter written by a participant in the fight and 

 published in these columns May 10, 1877. "For cool brav- 

 ery," it ran, "he beats anything that you ever saw. Why, 

 at one time we were under such hot fire that even our scouts 

 wanted to run, and to tell you the truth, I felt sort of that 

 way myself; but Frank just straightened himself up on 

 the old black horse and said, very quietly, 'The first one of 

 my men that runs I will kill.' They didn't run." 



The story of the killing of Tall Bull, and the fight with 

 Turkey Leg's band of Sioux, illustrate the readiness and the 

 daring of Major North in battle. Tall Bull was a chief who 

 commanded a large village of renegade Sioux and Cheyennes, 

 dog soldiers, who had given great trouble by their depredations. 

 Major North, with his Pawnees and a few United States troops 

 had been looking for this village for some time and at length 

 succeeded in surprising it near Pawnee Buttes. The village 

 was captured in the charge and many of the dog soldiers 

 killed. Others fled or concealed themselves in the ravines 

 and washouts, which seamed the prairie, and made a desper- 

 ate fight. The Pawnees were scattered about in little parties 

 killing the hostiles thus concealed, when Major North and 

 his brother came riding rapidly along, side by side, over the 

 open prairie. They had approached within fifty or s^xty 

 yards of a narrow steep-walled ravine, of the existence of 

 which they were ignorant, when an Indian raised his head 

 above its side and fired. The ball whistled between the 

 heads of the two riders, Major North threw up his hands 

 and reeled in the saddle as if about to fall, and the Indian's 

 head disappeared from sight. Springing from his horse the 

 Major handed his bridle rein to his brother and directed him 

 to ride away at a gallop. The tramp of the two horses 

 sounded more and more faintly on the hard ground, and the 

 Indian, thinking that the whites were riding off, raised his 

 head to note the effect of his shot. The rifle was already 

 leveled at the spot where the head had disappeared, and as 

 the black hair came into view the finger pressed the trigger 

 more and more closely, and when the eyes appeared above 

 the ground, a ball pierced the brain of Tall Bull. A hundred 

 yards up the ravine lay his war pony, stabbed to the heart, 

 and by it sat his squaw awaiting, with Indian patience, what- 

 ever fate might come to her. 



During one of the summer hunts of the Pawnees, on which 

 Major North accompanied them, they were attacked by a 

 large war party of Sioux under the Chief, Turkey Leg, who, 

 after a severe battle, were defeated, and driven off with a 

 loss of many men. The Pawnees were out hunting, and 

 were scattered over the prairie running buffalo. Major 

 North's first notice of the attack was by seeing the dust 

 knocked up about his horse by riile balls. He called to a 

 Pawnee near him to tell those boys to be more careful about 

 shooting. The Pawnee looked for a moment in the direction 

 from which the balls were coming, and after an instant 

 called back, "They are Sioux, you had better run. " They 

 rode for he bluffs near at hand, but were surrounded by the 



Sioux and took refuge in a little washout at the head of a 

 ravine, where they were somewhat sheltered from the enemies' 

 fire by the sunflower stalks and the low edges of the bank. 

 Their horses were at once killed, and the Sioux, who were 

 numerous, became very bold, charging up to the edge of the 

 washout and shooting down into it. 



They were led by an Indian apparently of some import- 

 ance, who was conspicuous by a large American flag which 

 he carried. This man was constantly exhorting his men, 

 and would lead them part way on the charge, sheering off, 

 however, before coming within range of the washout, where 

 Frank North and his brother-in-law, with seven Pawnees, 

 were lying concealed. After each charge he would ride to 

 the top of a hill near at hand and make a speech to his war- 

 riors. It occurred to Major North that if he could kill the 

 man who carried the flag, the other Sioux might lose some 

 of their courage. As they were retiiing from a charge, 

 therefore, he crept cautiously down the ravine, concealed by 

 the long grass which grew in its bed, until he had come 

 within rifle range of the hill from which the leader was 

 making his speech, and by a careful shot killed him and re- 

 gained the shelter of the washout without injury. 



Disheartened by the fall of their leader, the Sioux made no 

 further attempts to kill the besieged company, but after a 

 little desultory long-range firing drew off, so that North and 

 his little company regained the main village. 



If the story of Major North's life were written, it would 

 constitute a history of the Indian wars in Nebraska and 

 Wyoming from 1860 to 1876— a history so full that there 

 would be little left to add to it. Wherever the hostile Indi- 

 ans were worst there Frank North was to be found at the 

 head of his Pawnee scouts, doing the hardest of the fighting, 

 and accomplishing work that could have been done by no 

 other body of men. 



From his long service in the army Major North was 

 known to all officers who have ever been stationed in the 

 field where his operations were conducted, and by all of 

 them he was admired and respected. He was closely con- 

 nected with the growth of the State of Nebraska. Several 

 times he represented Platte county in the Legislature, and 

 the strength and uprightness of his character won the con- 

 fidence of all who knew him. There was no man in Ne- 

 braska who had so wide a circle of friends, nor one who 

 will be so sincerely mourned as Major Frank North. 



His was a singularly lovable nature. If the stronger 

 manly points of his character inspired respect and admiration, 

 not less did his gentleness and consideration for others win 

 the deepest affection. He was modest almost to diffidence, and 

 it was with difficulty that he could be induced to speak of 

 his own heroic achievements. And yet his face told the 

 story of the power within the man. One who is accustomed 

 to command men, and is so a judge of character, after seeing 

 him for the first time, made 1he homely remark: "There 

 is a man with grit in his face; one you could 'tie to.' " 



Frank North is at rest. After a life full of adventure, of 

 trouble, and of physical suffering, he sleeps well. He will 

 not soon be forgotten. AH over the Western country there 

 are men who will long cherish the memory of Frank North; 

 a man who was brave as a lion, as gentle as a woman. 



Albany. — The deer-hounding bill has not yet passed the 

 Senate. Mr. Owens's bill to amend the trout law has passed 

 the Assembly. Mr. Otis's bill providing for further protec- 

 tion of game in Queens and Suffolk counties passed the Sen- 

 ate. The Coggeshall bill relative to trespass damages was 

 lost and then recalled for recommitment. The Adirondack 

 forestry bills appear to be destined to go by the board. 



Arbor Day. — The observance of a public holiday, set 

 apart for tree-planting by school children and others, has 

 proved a most effective way to enlist the feeling of the com- 

 munity in the subject of forestry. It is proposed to estab- 

 lish such a holiday in this State. 



The New Jersey Bill relative to song birds is an excel- 

 lent measure, and the public will hail its passage with satis- 

 faction. But the penalty of $500 is so excessive that it will 

 defeat itself when put to test. A fine of $25 would be 

 better. 



The Chicago Market receives many tons of Wisconsin 

 venison shipped in trunks under lock and key. It is esti- 

 mated that within the period of six months past 15,000 car- 

 cases of venison were shipped to Chicago and other markets. 



The Michigan Deer Hounding Bill, we are informed, 

 has not yet passed the Senate; a communication on this sub- 

 ject will appear in our next issue- 



