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Show ¥r I ^ | | as few men, living or dead, possess." The article is illustrated with a photograph bearing the caption "The Pursued and the Pursuer of Other Days. Hash-kay Yashi, oldest living medicine-man of the Navajos, and Dan Du Bois, the last of the frontier scouts, in peaceful contemplation of the housewarming of El Navajo Hotel. Sixty years ago these two warriors were engaged for many months in an earnest and persistent effort to shoot each other, and this is the only 'shooting' that ever was done at either of them with impunity." "After the ceremonial in which one was actor and the other spectator, these two old men trailed out without a word, each to his hogan in the reservation. It was a curious meeting, but apparently more interesting to the spectators than to the principals. There was no exchange of reminiscences. If they had common memories, they remained memories; which perhaps was just as well, for these are wise old men, taught in the grim school of the frontier." Further, in the body of the article "Dan Du Bois was the friend and companion of Kit Carson and aided Carson in the bitter campaign of 1863 in which the latter guided the military expedition which rounded up the rebelling Navajo Indians at Fort Sumner, N.M., where they were held until the final pipe had been smoked and the Navajo went to the great reservation to remain in peace." This is a pretty story, but it chanced that Dan was in the Union army in the East from August 10, 1863, until March 7, 1864, the very period during which the Navajo were "rounded up." \ A local paper of unknown date, but doubtless only a short time before Dan went to Sawtelle, reported- ^^_ .^^^ "Mr. Dubois is now located at Coyote Canyon, about three miles south of town. , He lives alone in what was formerly his trading post. He is now eighty-four years of age and is in very poor health. He has been retired from the trading business for some time, ' but is unable to take himself away from the scenes of his early activities, and it is his desire to cross the Divide when the proper time comes amidst what there remains of the New Mexico Wild and Wooly West, J. L. Hubbell, of this city, is now looking after his personal needs and wants." "Mr. Dubois selected a piece of land in Coyote Springs district in the early days, which is considered the garden spot of the Southwest. The quarter section of land which he selected had on [it] thirty-five springs, from which flowed the purest water. Through a transaction by purchase the government bought the land back from Mr. Dubois, after he had proved up on it as his homestead, and it is now held as a reservation of the government." FINALE For the benefit of those in the future who may seek information on the final chapter of Dan DuBois, let us quote from the official report by the Veterans Administration at Sawtelle: *& I |
