. Diary of the Washburn Expedition to the Yellowstone and Firehole Rivers in the year 1870. get the best of us by stealing our horses orkilling some of us; then we will be so crippled that wecant do them any damage. xVt the commencement of tlis letter I said I would notgo unless the party stood guard. I will take that back, for I am just d d fool enough to go anyw^here that anybody else is willing to go, only I want it understood that verylikely some of us will lose our hair. I will be on hand Sun-day evening, unless I hear that the trip is postponed. Fraternally yours, JAS. STUART. Since writ
. Diary of the Washburn Expedition to the Yellowstone and Firehole Rivers in the year 1870. get the best of us by stealing our horses orkilling some of us; then we will be so crippled that wecant do them any damage. xVt the commencement of tlis letter I said I would notgo unless the party stood guard. I will take that back, for I am just d d fool enough to go anyw^here that anybody else is willing to go, only I want it understood that verylikely some of us will lose our hair. I will be on hand Sun-day evening, unless I hear that the trip is postponed. Fraternally yours, JAS. STUART. Since writing the above, I have received a telegram say-ing, twelve of us going certain. Glad to hear it—themore the better. Will bring two pack horses and one packsaddle. I have preserved this letter of James Stuart for the thirty-five years since it was received. It was written with alead pencil on both sides of a sheet of paper, and I inserthere a photograph of a half-tone reproduction of it. It hasbecome somewhat illegible and obscure from repeated fold-ing and unfolding. XlV Introduction,. Introduction. xv r* ^! :.^. .:. •> ^c < ; .- ?.-. .«,»<.j, ir/fl^» 4-^<a <r i;:-. ^ C/:. C^.;,: • -• ;of pc ^? ?..? ? . ^.. , . - /. .. -7 j^ ^• —? ; .. •, , . / :.- :-r • - 1 : :: ^ : ?/^ ? i ^ ) ?// 1 1 ) - ^ . - . ^ /. ? .^i-^. - J ^ y,.. At^e / < - , L. _ Mr. Stuart was a man of large experience in such enter-prises as that in which we were about to engage, and wasfamiliar with all the tricks of Indian craft and sagacity;and our subsequent experience in meeting the Indians onthe second day of our journey after leaving Fort Ellis, andtheir evident hostile intentions, justified in the fullest de-gree Stuarts apprehensions. About this time Gen. Henry D. Washburn, the surveyorgeneral of Montana, joined with Mr, Hauser in a telegramto General Hancock, at St. Paul, requesting him to providethe promised escort of a company of cavalry. General Han-cock i
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