. Little journeys to the homes of the great . was obeyed. A double-quick was ordered,and the half-breed lit out, quickening his pace as hegot out of range. Hill then picked up the other rifle,put whip to his dogs, and by night had gone so far416 JAMES J. HILL that he could not be overtaken. When Jim came backthat way a few weeks later, he kept his eye peeledfor danger, but he never saw his friend I heard Mr. Hill relate this story he told it assimply as he might relate how he went out to milk thecows. One of the men present asked, Did nt youfeel sorry for the fellow, to turn him adr
. Little journeys to the homes of the great . was obeyed. A double-quick was ordered,and the half-breed lit out, quickening his pace as hegot out of range. Hill then picked up the other rifle,put whip to his dogs, and by night had gone so far416 JAMES J. HILL that he could not be overtaken. When Jim came backthat way a few weeks later, he kept his eye peeledfor danger, but he never saw his friend I heard Mr. Hill relate this story he told it assimply as he might relate how he went out to milk thecows. One of the men present asked, Did nt youfeel sorry for the fellow, to turn him adrift on thatfrozen plain, without food or fuel? Mr. Hill hesi-tated, and then slowly answered: I thought of that,but preferred to send him adrift rather than kill him,or let him kill me. Anyway he had only some fiftymiles to travel to strike an Indian village. When hewas there we were a hundred and fifty miles see I am a mathematician. It is a great joy tofigure out what a long distance you are from somefolks 53 53 417 JAMES J. HILL. N his business of supplying cord-wood tosteamboats, Mr. Hill had a partner, grizzledand gray, by the name of Griggs. Griggswas a typical pioneer: he was always movingon. He bought a little stern-wheel steamboat, andshipped its boiler and engine across to Breckenridge,where he had the joy of running the first steamboat,1 The Northwest/ on the Red Hill built the second steamboat on the Red River,1 The Swallow/ on the order of Kittson, who boughtthe boat as soon as she had shown her ability to the metal used in its making, which of courseincluded engine and boiler, was sent across from SaintPaul. And if the outfit was gotten out of a wreckedMississippi stern-wheeler, what boots it!Then it was that Kittson, having also bought theGriggs steamboat, was given the title of Commodore,a distinction which he carried through this time several things had happened. One wasthat Hill had brought up to Saint Paul a steamboat-load
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