. Life and deeds of William Herrick, hermit of Minnehaha Falls; a tale of the wild West in early days; a true story;. v otherknown land. After crossing- this belt of country we pui^hcdon. traveling nights and hiding the Little Big Horn we were not long inlocating our winter residence. \\c found a caveunder an overhanging bank, that with a littledigging exactly fitted our needs, ^^e now walledup the front with a solid stone wall and fixed alarge stone so that we could use it for a door Ijyrolling it back and forth and fastened it with akey stone. Wc cut a quantity of hay from
. Life and deeds of William Herrick, hermit of Minnehaha Falls; a tale of the wild West in early days; a true story;. v otherknown land. After crossing- this belt of country we pui^hcdon. traveling nights and hiding the Little Big Horn we were not long inlocating our winter residence. \\c found a caveunder an overhanging bank, that with a littledigging exactly fitted our needs, ^^e now walledup the front with a solid stone wall and fixed alarge stone so that we could use it for a door Ijyrolling it back and forth and fastened it with akey stone. Wc cut a quantity of hay from thebig supply below us in the valley and broughtthat into our camp. Next we brought in woodand set about curing meat for the winters a few weeks we were well fixed for a spring bubbled up at one end of the cave andran out under our stone wall to the river could stand a siege of six months if we hadto. Our traps ran up and down theLittle Big Hornfor a distance of ten miles. Later in the year weset them on some of the smaller stream^ runninginto that river. Fur was very plentiful and we No one visitinji llic Falls should fail to visit the Sold-iers Home. A foot bridge over the beautiful IMinnehaha glenleads from the park to the Home. The site of the Min-nesota Soldiers Plome comprises fifty-one acres ofwooded land beginning at the juncture of the Minneha-ha creek and running one mile north. It lies one-hun-dred feet above the level of ihe waters edge. For beauty and convenience of situation, picturesque-ness of view and perfect adaptability to the purpose itcannot be excelled: and it has withal a historic and ro-mantic interest which will ever prove of increasing in-terest to visitors. Within the city limits of Minneapolis, divided only bythe river from St. Paul, only three miles from FortSnclling, around which so many military memoriescluster, amd in summer literally cooled by the spray oithe laughing cascade immortalized in Longfellows clas-sic, the
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