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Title: Life in the world's wonderland : a graphic description of the great Northwest, from the Mississippi River to the land of the midnight sun, including descriptions of Sioux Falls, Sioux City, Fremont, Lincoln, Kansas City, Ottumwa, Fort Madison, and all the wonders of the unrivaled Yellowstone Park, the mines and canons of the Rocky Mountains, the beauties fo the Oregon and Columbia Rivers, and the famous inland passage from Tacoma, Washington Territory, to Sitka, Alaska : descriptions of the old Indian battle fields, including the last battle field of General Custer on the Big Horn River, the stories of old trappers, freighters, miners, and Indian fighters, told in their own unique style
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Gerrish, Theodore, 1846-1923
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Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ng so slowly I saw that I should have no difficultyin overtaking him, and crossed over to where he was.When I got near to it I found it was not a bear, and formy life I could not tell what it was. It did not look likean animal that I had ever seen, and it was certainly not ahuman being. It never occurred to me that it wasEvarts. I went up close to the object; it was making alow groaning noise, crawling upon its knees and elbows,and trying to drag itself up the mountain. Then it sud-denly occurred to me that it was the object of my search.I spoke his name, but he paid no attention to the soundof my voice. I stooped down and easily lifted him withone hand. Poor fellow, he was nothing but a shadow !His flesh was all gone; the bones protruded through theskin on the balls of his feet and thighs. His fingerslooked like birds claws. I carried him down to the YELLOWSTONE PARK. 239 Gardiner River, built a fire, made some tea, and gave hima spoonful. For many days and nights I watched over JO ^
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him, giving him a spoonful of nourishment at a time.He was constantly delirious. My hired man went down 240 LIFE IN THE WORLDS WONDERLAND. to the fort, and in a couple of weeks a physician andambulance arrived. It was four weeks before we couldmove him, during which time I gave him my owncare. He could never remember the experience of thosethirty-eight days. He is now living in Washington,D. C, but has never fully recovered his reason. Hisfriends refused to pay me because I found him alive, theysaying that it was his place to pay the bills. He wouldnot pay me because he said that if I had left him alone hewould have found his own way out. The mountain whichbears his name is six miles from the place where I foundhim. * Yes, said J. X. Beidler, as he reloaded his pipe onthe veranda of the hotel at the Yellowstone Falls, oldchief Joseph, of the Nez Perces, and General Howard hada great race through here a few years ago. They marchedall through this park. The soldiers largely outnumberedt

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