The Yellowstone national park, historical and descriptive, illustrated with maps, views and portraits . Yellowstone in order, if possible, to learn the fate ofthe missing members of the party. Shortly after theirdeparture from the Springs a band of Indians prowledacross the country from the Yellowstone to the Gardiner,and went down the latter stream as far as Hendersonsranch near the present town of Cinnabar. After a briefskirmish and a general pillage here, they went back toMammoth Hot Springs. Stoner and the colored cook fledprecipitately, but Dietrich, believing the Indians to befriendly sc
The Yellowstone national park, historical and descriptive, illustrated with maps, views and portraits . Yellowstone in order, if possible, to learn the fate ofthe missing members of the party. Shortly after theirdeparture from the Springs a band of Indians prowledacross the country from the Yellowstone to the Gardiner,and went down the latter stream as far as Hendersonsranch near the present town of Cinnabar. After a briefskirmish and a general pillage here, they went back toMammoth Hot Springs. Stoner and the colored cook fledprecipitately, but Dietrich, believing the Indians to befriendly scouts, remained behind and was shot dead in thedoor of the hotel. Stone made a lucky escape by climbinga tree, and his subsequent ludicrous recital of his expe-rience became a standin/g jest among the inhabitants ofthe Yellowstone. Weikert and McCartney went back to the old camp onOtter Creek, where they buried Kencks remains and gath-ered up whatever of value the Indians had left. On theirway back, when near the falls of the East Gardiner, theymet the band of Indians who had just slain Dietrich at. •-r ... * THE NEZ PERCES AND THE HELENA TOURISTS. 165 Mammoth Hot Springs. A lively skirmish ensued, inwhich Weikert lost his horse. The two men succeeded infinding refuge in some neighboring brushwood. Several noteworthy incidents are connected with thisraid of the Nez Perces, as there always are with any eventwhere human life is at stake and men are put upon theirmettle by the problem of self-preservation. The camp site on Otter Creek was well chosen for de-fense, but its natural advantages were absolutely ignoredby the party. It was a triangular knoll between the forksof the stream, and some twenty feet above them. It com-manded every approach, and with the slightest vigilanceand intelligent preparation, could have been made impreg-nable to the eighteen Indians who attacked it. But whilethe camp was^ properly pitched in a little depression backof the crest, the men themselves al
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