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Exerts from the Bridger Valley Enterprise July 30, 1912

*NOTE - I found this on page one of the above paper and found it very interesting. I, too, will bring you this article over the next few weeks. Unfortunately, as of this time, this is the only portion of the whole “History” I can find.

Life History of “Jim” Bridger - The Daniel Boone of the Rockies

(It is fitting that the Bridger Valley Enterprise should devote part of its space to the noted frontiersman, “Jim” Bridger, whose life story will be told in detail through these columns. We would sug-gest that our readers save the Enterprise from week to week until the story is completed and the home will then possess a reliable history of the man who made this valley possible, and whose name is honored with those of other early pioneers.)

(Continued from last Issue.)

In the spring of 1831 Bridger and Sublette started for the Black-foot country, where they met a band of the Crows, who stole all their horses. Bridger led a party of his men in pursuit and recap-tured all these horses as well as taking all the ponies of the Crows. Fitzpatrick had gone to St. Louis to bring out the winter supplies. Bridger and Sublette followed nearly their previous year’s route in their hunting, and in the fall reached the rendezvous on Green river, where they met Gervais and Frack, who were at the head of another party of the Rocky Mountain Fur company. After leaving St. Louis, Fitzpatrick came out with his supplies by the way of San-ta Fe, and was so long in reaching the rendezvous on Green river that Sublette and Bridger returned to the Powder river to winter, and here they first met the competition of the American Fur com-pany, which drove the Rocky Mountain Fur company out of busi-ness. Fitzpatrick and Frack joined Bridger here on Powder river, but becoming disgusted with the movements of the American Fur company, under Vandenburg and Dripps, Fitzpatrick and Bridger with their entire outfit moved west some 400 miles to Pierre’s Hole, near the forks of the Snake river. In the spring of 1832 they moved up the Snake to Salt, up that stream and across to John Day river, up that river to its head and across to Bear river in the Great Salt Lake basin. Here they again met the American Fur com-pany, with Vandenburg and Dripps. They struck off into a different country, and finally rendezvoused again at Pierre’s Hole, waiting for the supplies from the states being brought out by William L. Sublette. At their rendezvous concentrated this summer the Rocky Mountain Fur company, the American Fur company, Arther J. Wy-eth with a new party coming mostly from the New England states, a large number of free traders and trappers and numerous bands of Indians, and here occurred the celebrated battle of Pierre’s Hole, with the Gros Ventre Indians, which was one of the hardest battles fought in an early day on the plains, the losses being very heavy. The battle of Pierre’s Hole, or the Teton basin, was fought July 13, 1832. Of the different fur companies and free traders there were present some 300 men and several hundred Indians of the Nez Perces and Flathead tribes. The Gros Ventres, about 150 strong, always hostile to the whites, were returning from a visit to their kindred, the Arapahoes. They carried a British flag captured from Hudson Bay company trappers. When the Indians saw the band of trappers, who were some eight miles from the main ren-dezvous at Pierre’s Hole, the Indians made signs of peace, but they were known to be so treacherous the no confidence was placed in their signs. However, Antoine Godin, whose father had been killed by this tribe, and a Flathead chief, whose nation had suffered untold wrongs from them, advanced to meet them. The Gros Ventre chief came forward, and when Godin grasped his hand in friendship the Flathead shot the Gros Ventre chief dead. The Gros Ventre immediately retired to a grove of timber, and commenced piling up logs and entrenching. The trappers sent word to the rendezvous, and when Sublette and Campbell brought reinforcements the battle opened, the trappers charging the Indians, and finally tried to burn them out, but did not suc-ceed. The Gros Ventres, through their interpreter, made the trap-pers believe that a large portion of their tribe, some 800, were attacking the rendezvous. Upon learning this the trappers immedi-ately left for its defense and found the story was a lie, but by this ruse the Indians were able to escape. The whites lost five killed and six wounded, the loss of the Gros Ventres was never fully known. They left nine killed, with twenty five horses and all their baggage, and admitted a loss of twenty-six warriors. The Indians escaped during the night and effected a junction with their tribe. (More of this ‘History’ next week in Moments In History)

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From the Green River Star Sept. 30 1910,page 4

Some years ago, in a southern state, a

small boy had some puppies in a basket

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into the basket and saw that they were

from the same lot as that of his recent

purchase. “Republicans,” the little fellow

replied promptly. “Ah,” the man ex-

claimed, “but two weeks ago I had one

from the same family and you said they

were Democratic puppies. How do you ac-

count for that?” “O! Oh! Mister, you see

they have their eyes open now.”

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Feb. 9, 1912, page 8

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