Sept. 4, 1909.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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;aptain while on a long march in order to keep 
nis horses serviceable and prevent his troopers 
from becoming dismounted. 
This he accomplishes in part by marching at 
( l walk whenever the circumstances will admit 
Df it. By means of the walk we make four 
miles an hour, and as twenty-five miles is con¬ 
sidered a fair day’s march, it is thus made in 
about seven hours, considering the necessary 
is that on it a Crow chief was killed and then 
his heart was eaten by his enemies. The butte’s 
name is the only evidence upon which this tradi¬ 
tion now rests. 
Following up the river valley we went into 
camp in a fine grove of cottonwoods, sufficiently 
scattered as to permit of good pasturage. 
It is customary with individual tourists and 
campers upon making camp to turn their horses 
with him on his blanket roll attached to his 
saddle, so as soon as he unsaddles he can se¬ 
lect his “bunkie” and put up his tent. The 
officers’ tents are wall tents, carried in the 
wagons, and cannot be put up till the wagons 
come in. As soon as that takes place, details 
of men put up the officers’ tents, get wood and 
water for the cooks and the latter build their 
fire and at once set about getting supper. Sol- 
CAMP OF F TROOP, EIGHTH CAVALRY. 
THE TROOP ON THE MARCH. 
salts. The wagons carrying our supplies can 
jo no faster than that, and there is rarely any 
advantage in reaching one’s camping ground very 
much in advance of the wagons. 
On the morning in question, after a march of 
h few hours over an apparently endless plain, 
ive suddenly came to its end and found our¬ 
selves standing on the brink of the stern and 
forbidding precipice which forms the southern 
confine of the Wind River Valley. The view 
.hat burst on our gaze was grand. The river 
loose and either to watch them or else trust to 
luck in the matter of finding them again. We 
are not permitted to do this in the army. We 
always mean to provide grain for our animals 
on the march, and when we are unable to buy 
hay en route and thus have to rely on grazing, 
we put each horse out on a rope fastened to a 
picket pin driven in the ground. On the march 
each mounted man carries his lariat and pin 
attached to his saddle, and as soon as he un¬ 
saddles, seeks a good grazing place for his horse 
diers like to have their food well cooked, but 
better still they appear to like it promptly 
cooked, and that camp cook is always popular 
who calls, “Come and get it’’ just a little sooner 
than it is expected. 
Ordinarily the troop officers get their meals 
from the troop mess, but on this occasion we 
established a headquarters mess. I knew first 
rate meals would go far toward smoothing over 
many little inconveniences that our guests might 
encounter and would tend to keep all happy and 
PREPARING TO RIGHT THE OVERTURNED ARMY WAGON. 
SERGEANT CARROLL TRYING FOR A TROUT IN THE DINWIDDIE. 
itself can be traced for some distance by its 
fringe of large cottonwoods, while Crowheart 
Butte stands sentinel over a much longer stretch 
and forms a landmark of great prominence. The 
river itself is historic and even the butte has its 
tradition. The river was the route by means 
of which the original fur traders, trappers and 
Indians passed from the Atlantic to the Pacific 
waters. Over the trail we were now to take, 
Bonneville had several times passed, and no 
doubt Colter and the pioneers of his time 
traveled this trail. The tradition of the butte 
and drives his pin in the ground. The horse 
thus gets a limited area upon which to graze, the 
pins are changed once or twice during the even¬ 
ing, and as the horse stays all night on his rope, 
he gets a pretty fair chance at the grass after 
all, and when we want him in the morning we 
can find him. 
The horses having been unsaddled and dis¬ 
posed of, the men then put up their shelter tents. 
A shelter tent is a convenient little affair made 
in two halves to accommodate nicely two sol¬ 
diers. Each soldier carries his half and his pole 
enthusiastic, so I selected the man to have charge 
of this headquarters mess with the* greatest care. 
He proved himself such an expert and such a 
continual surprise to our guests that I will in¬ 
close his picture amid characteristic surround¬ 
ings, fishing for trout in the Dinwiddie—for 
Sergeant Carroll is as skillful at hunting and 
fishing as at managing a mess—his secret of 
success being in each case the same, namely, 
hard work. Our horses were fed each night 
on the march from nosebags. When all the 
nosebags are filled the trumpeter sounds stable 
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