STORY OF ROCKY MOUNTAIN JIM. 1874. 
"You know Rocky Mountain Jim. 1 " "Yes." "He was 
shot the other day." " Shot 1 how did that come about?" 
"Well, you see he had been staying a good deal in Estes 
Park during the last year and insisted on paying some 
attentions to the daughter of Mr. Evans , the principal 
ranchman of the locality. This was very displeasing to 
the old gent, so Jim was forbidden the ranch. But the 
temptation was too great and Jim very incautiously pre- 
sented himself at the gate and was cordially greeted by 
a charge of buckshot from the old inan T s fowling piece. 
But I guess he will get over It; he has a charmed life, 
that man has , Did you never hear how he was chawed up 
by a grizzly about a year ago?" "Yes." "He came mighty 
near his end, Jim did. Had the breath squeezed out of 
his body and his eyes out -of his head, so that when he 
came to his senses the first thing he did was to pick 
them up and set them in place again." 
"You see, I was in Middle Park at the time and 
held him in my arms for two whole days after it happened, 
so I ought to know how It was, Jim was prospecting some- 
where along the Grand River near* Grand Lake, high up, and 
happened to get short of grub; but he had nothing with him 
but a six-shooter and it was pretty hard to get big game 
with that particular kind of an iron. But he was an old f un 
in the business and could most always get even with circum- 
