OCR Text |
Show FORTY YEARS AMONG THE INDIANS. 155 finally given them up, supposing that they had been stolen, and taken entirely out of the country. The road from this place continued on up Fountain creek for some thirty miles then crossed over and down to Cherry creek ; estimated eighty- five miles from this place to the next station, where we could find a stopping place. This looked like having to camp out. Something we were not prepared to do. Again, we still were timid not having recovered from our stampede. We felt much better when in a safe place. Our landlord told us of a more direct route, that he had recommended to different ones and tried to get opened through, that would shorten the distance about half from his place to Cherry City. There was no trail through, but the country looked open and favorable, and as our host had been kind to us and manifested quite a desire to have us go through, after receiving his direc-tions and locating the points where the country showed best, we started out. After traveling about forty miles we saw quite a bunch of horses. On approaching them we discovered, from the brands and descriptions given us, that they were the lost stock of our kind entertainer. Not long after seeing the horses we struck the main road, having saved many miles of travel as our route was almost direct, while the old road was very crooked. Soon after striking the road we met a train, by which we sent a note to the owner where his horses were. After getting home we received a letter acknowledg-ing our act and saying the animals were his. I have for-gotten the name of the owner of the stock, but have often thought of the circumstance, for I will admit that we were tempted at first to try to make something out of the find. |