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here, Maybe he )v\lt; been filled in! a ight probahl\.M“I hardly think so. \ cry few people n the country would care to engigc Inn), ind he never sought trouble. On the thcr hand, he always avoided personal tncounters, though when he was forced nto one he could take care of himself dd-nirablv. No, I do not think he has alien in a fight.”I suppose there were occasions when le was invaluable to you r'■Yes, indeed, and never more so than when I crossed the river in order to go :o Miles* relief, fearing that Sitting Bull night come to the rescue of the captured Indians. I heard that he had intercepted the Nez Perces, so I crossed the river with the whole command to the scene!of the fight. Johnson was my guide on that occasion. Everything depended on him —no one else in the command knew anything about the country we had to traverse—and lie led us straight to our destination.^“What sort of a man was he socially?” “These men are .pretty much alike. They live from hand to mouth; make a little money and spend it as soon as made; live principally by the chase and seem to have no care for the future/’“Married or«single ?”“Oh, I’ve no doubt he was, or had been married. The marriage relation is not very seriously regarded in that country. Such men marry squaws generally according to the Indian custom, but the relation is not considered \erjr binding, and Johnson in iv hn\c been married more thjn oner
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Bismarck Tri Weekly Tribune
Bismarck, North Dakota, US
Thu, Feb 07, 1878
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