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As soon as he arrived at Ken dall, Steele got on the phone to talk to his bride of a year. Riley had already asked him for his escort for two more days about my District and then to Sheri dan Creek Station and the Du bois District of the Bonneville Division for two days. Now “Company—him—these—four—days, as he had to get down to Dutch Jos Station to correct a cabin which was being built two fort off specification. Riley had been experienced Forest Service Ranger Stations. is Forest. The supervisor's job is not an office one but adminis trative in the field.” The next day we went to the Rim of the Fall River Basin, along the Forest Boundary, up Twin Creek at the east end of Sawtnoth— then —back by—Rock Creek to Kendall, the following day up Teepea Creek over the Pass, west to Tosi Creek and down to Kendall. While leaving the Pass, I looked west about a half-mile and saw a suspect tusk hunter badly galloping his bars at the edge of the timber, headed for Gros Ventre. I said, “I'm going to see if I can catch him . When I caught up with him I asked to see his hunting license and put his hand on his six-shooter saying, ‘This is my license”. Then he opened his shirt, fished out a license from his second shirt. When I caught up again with Smith Riley I told him Hadgey and his two pals were probably camped up at the head of Tosi and I was going to get them He replied he needed me to guide him to Sheri dan Creek and beyond and for me to-inform the Game_ Warden, at Kendall Station that night (Al tell you later all about the task-hunters.) The next day we traversed the length of the telephone line past Fish Lake Park and Union Pass to Sheridan Creek Station. Riley noted that the swinging insulator brackets on the trees used for poles were veering and snapping the wires. He sug gested that we top the trees and thin the remaining branches to cut down on wind sway. I de scribed to him how when tha t winter snows were not,too_deep_ for my horse, I would stand in the saddle to “coon” up the tree, as ‘climbers’ were not sup plied At Sheridan Creek Sta ton we found no Ranger but the Flag was lying, this was against regulations so Riley took the Flag down The new station cabin was locked but not with a Forest Service padlock. The old cabin nearby did have such a pedlock and we slept there that night That evening Riley recounted his visit to Lan der. He and Nelson bought two saddle and two peck horses there, figuring they could smva -P0EO - BOE 00 resale after their inspection up through the Yellowstons forest Reserve. Coming away from the livery shulls they met a man in Ranger uniform, identi fying himself as Arthur Roberts of the Squaw Creek Station in the Washakie Division. (No, not any kin of the present Plocdals District Ranger.) Riley said he timber for a sawmill owner it Dickinson Par Riley said, “I'm not coming to Interfere with your work but I need your as sistance. Roberts told him he had some business in town to do but, with his Assistant Ranger, Roter_(Pets) Peterson, should meet him at the livery stable. After waiting some hours there Riley and Nelson set out for Squaw Creek Station, found no Rangers but four or five ranch ers cutting timber without per mits, leaving stumps higher than eighteen inches and their side scattered about without stack ing to burn. At Dickinson Park he was told Roberts had not been there and he found the same carelessness in timber cut ting, 50 he went on to keep ap pointment with Silas Yarnell of the South Pass District. (I think Harry Hall that fall told me Riley said ‘Roberts and Peterson should be replaced.) On October $ we rode into my temporary District of Horse Creek, December 1906 to June 1907, up to Pinnacle Butte, our fire observation point, and down the DuNoir River to Sheridan Creek by 3 pm We saw the Ranger's brother, Kay Clark, just leaving after unloading three pack horses. He didn’t know where Jay was, the Sta tion cabin had the padlock and looking in the window we could see the three pack loads of two freshly butchered elk. Riley told me I could go back to Kendall the next day, then he and Nelson started for Dubois, but before leaving, he wrote a letter to Jay Clark. (A month later I heard that Jay had resigned.) The last of March, 1910, Fos_ ter Steele called me at Kendall where I was almost snowed in, asked if I would like to take over the Squaw Creek District at Lander. Would I! A chance to get out of these deep snows— I couldnt get packed soon enough. I tumed the Station over to Bert HAL In Pinedale I found that Harry Hall was to replace Steele who was being reassigned to Idaho as a Dist rict Ranger. The Washakie Di vision was to have its own su pervisor and headquarters of Lander. Harry Hall held his post and his death in 1915, when he was succeeded by Lee Coopes, former Deputy Supervisor of the Frazer National Forest in Colo rado. In 1918 Cooper had as his Deputy, Ernest E. McKee. In 1920 the Pinsdale Headquarters was moved to Kemmerer, com bined with the Afton Head quarters, and Charles A. Beam became Supervisor. *
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Pinedale Roundup
Pinedale, Wyoming, US
Thu, Aug 12, 1965
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