. The official Northern Pacific Railway guide : for the use of tourists and travelers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railway and its branches : containing descriptions of states, cities, towns and scenery along the routes of these allied systems of transportation, and embracing facts relating to the history, resources, population, industries, products and natural features of the great Northwest . Seven Hundred Miles in Montana, 167 —had for generations made pilgrimages to this naturalsanitarium with their invalids, pitching their tepees aroundthe fountains for the relief of their sick,
. The official Northern Pacific Railway guide : for the use of tourists and travelers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railway and its branches : containing descriptions of states, cities, towns and scenery along the routes of these allied systems of transportation, and embracing facts relating to the history, resources, population, industries, products and natural features of the great Northwest . Seven Hundred Miles in Montana, 167 —had for generations made pilgrimages to this naturalsanitarium with their invalids, pitching their tepees aroundthe fountains for the relief of their sick, while their sore-backed ponies were healed by washing them in the healingwaters below. Of course, the curative properties of thesprings were the last hope for those at a great distance,whose afflictions had baffled the skill of their ablest** medicine men/^ No better proof than this of the heal-ing properties of the water could be afforded, as thesavage tribes acquire all their knowledge of the treatmentof diseases from the experience of ages handed down fromfather to son. But there is abundant testimony, also, onthe part of numbers of white men who have been restoredto health by drinking and bathing in the water of thesesprings, that there was no superstition in the red manesfaith in their remarkable curative powers. They arenamed Hunter^s Springs in recognition of the fact that A. Hunt
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