. Oregon sportsman. N BUGLE AND TRAILER IN A BATTLE ROYAL By John B. Griffin, Kirby, Oregon I PROMISED in my last story to tell you about a hunt and bear fightin which Old Bugle—Fred Barneburgs thoroughbred hound—had ahand and helped to save Trailer when he was in the- closest placeof his life. Fred Barneburg was one of the good old pioneers of the RogueRiver Valley and was one of the first settlers and secured valuableland near Bear Creek. In those days he and Captain John S. Miller usedto kill deer where Medford now stands. Fred was known far and wideand loved to hunt better than anybody, an
. Oregon sportsman. N BUGLE AND TRAILER IN A BATTLE ROYAL By John B. Griffin, Kirby, Oregon I PROMISED in my last story to tell you about a hunt and bear fightin which Old Bugle—Fred Barneburgs thoroughbred hound—had ahand and helped to save Trailer when he was in the- closest placeof his life. Fred Barneburg was one of the good old pioneers of the RogueRiver Valley and was one of the first settlers and secured valuableland near Bear Creek. In those days he and Captain John S. Miller usedto kill deer where Medford now stands. Fred was known far and wideand loved to hunt better than anybody, and was a great hand to takecare of meat after he had killed it. I used to hunt a great deal withFred and Dave Miller and it kept me pretty busy sometimes listeningto them both talking at the same time, telling how they came to miss anold buck or managed to bag him. Fred was several years older than I and used to tell around thecampfire of his early hunting days and his hunts in Dead Indian andaround Grizzly PINTAIL DUCKLING POSING FOR PICTURE THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 35 I remember of him telling me of seeing two large grizzlies inmortal combat. He and his brother Aaron were camped near HoxiePrairie, now owned by William Myers of Ashland, and went out onemorning armed with muzzle loading rifles and upon coming out of thetimber to the edge of the prairie were astonished to see two largegrizzlies fighting savagely. It was immense to hear Fred describe thefight. How they would rear upon their haunches and claw each other,bite and growl and roll over and over on the ground oblivious to every-thing around them. Fred was so absorbed in the fight that he could only stand andlook without a thought of danger, but finally upon looking around, hediscovered that he was alone, his brother Aaron having turned and ranfor camp as fast as he could go without even calling to Fred to brought him to a realization of his danger and the folly of tryingto kill them, and he too, turned
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