88 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Thursday, March 2, 1950
RADIO PROGRAMS
, IrfP
ON TO OREGON
The Way West
THURSDAY r. M.
By A. B. GUTHRIE, JR.
BYNOP6IS: You could Ray that
tha On-to-Oregon wagon train
was a seasoned outfit now. Death,
desertion, Indian trouble and
many hundred weary miles were
behind them. But just ahead at
the moment lies r difficult cut
off that may save two days, and
on the other hand, may bring
disaster to the lnrty. Dick Sum
mers, the old mountain man who
is their guide, knows better than
the others how :ough this high,
desert cut-off may be on man and
beast. It is late summer, 1845.
Mow go on with the story
Chapter 16
They had cut right at the Little
Bandy and headed across the di
vide and rolled down to the Big
and filled buckets there and kegs
and barrels and had waited until
the day cooled. At iour ociock uj
the watch that Kvans carried, Sum
mers had led them out.
Thev traveled all night, bumping
over the sagebrush. As the desert
lightened with the coming of the
sun, they stopped and doled out
water xor uie cuiiers auu iuimw
them loose for what little that grew
and breakfasted on dried meat and
bread baked day before and yoked
up again and went on.
There never was such a day In
his remembering, Summers thought
as noon scorched close, none so hot
or breathless, none that made a
reach of miles appear so far.
Think, Summers I Think hard I
Left or right or straight ahead?
How was it long ago? You can't
be wrong. How was it now? Left,
It's left by the bulge of hill. Point
the party left!
The McBee girl looked sick, sweat
ing pale beside the wagon. Up
young'un, and ride. You want to
catch a stroke?
Summers thought, these folks are
trong. Strong ioiks, ana strong
for what? For Oregon and fish and
farms, for wheat and sheep and
nation. It was push now, pull and
Sush and strain at spokes, for some
;ams couldn't climb a rise alone.
Push or double-team.
There is was, the Oreen and shade
and rest for all and pasture for the
Banted stock. It was still half a
dozen miles away, down a long
pitch too steep to drive and then
across a humpy bottom, but the
alght of it was like a double drink
of whisky, and faces broke into
smiles and grainy voi-es joitea, say
ing, "What was it you said, Sum
mers? Chancey? The word ain't
knee-high to it. We made it, though,
good as ary mountain man."
The men unyoked the teams and
let the wagons down with ropes,
mads serious again by work under
the punishing sun. Summers said
to Kvans, "Llje, these crltters'll be
a handful when they smell water."
"What you tellln' me, Dick?"
"I'm thlnkln" we best drive on a
piece and turn 'em loose and herd
Van forwards till they smell it.
Plenty of time to get the wagons
later."
It came out as Summers knew It
would. Once they winded water, me
rittcrs wouldn't be held. They gal
loped crazy for It and plunged in.
One ox he saw had just his snoot
above the surface.
Now that the cutoff was behind
til em, Summers thought, he could
torment himself some more by go
ing back to days that had been.
Like on the Popo Agie. as he
remembered. Like with the Crow
girl. Ashla, running water, back
in running time. There on the
Sweetwater he had wanted to cross
over to the Popo Agle, which wasn't
but a run and Jump away. He had
Wanted to sea the singing waters
of It and the trees that had known
him and the place where he had
camped.
He lived In the now time and in
the then time, passing talk with
people luce old Weatherby, guiding,
advising, hunting, joshing with
Brownie or with Llje, while gone
days and gone folks fiUed his mind.
Weatherby pulled up, for below
them, far below, down one ridge
and another, ran Muddy Fork and,
beyond It, the rich green valley of
the Bear. "Ood in His goodness,"
Weatherby half whispered as his
gaze took it in, "in ms mignt."
"It's mighty, sure enough."
Bear River. It hadn't been named
for nothing, for Weathcrby's Ood
had nut bears there, black and
brown and, king of all, the great
white bear, feeder on ants and fish
and berries, unknower of the feel
of fear.
"Best wait for the train," Sum
mers told Weatherby. "Got to angle
down the slope and push the crit
ters by some springs that it seems
like I remember to De pizen."
The train rolled up, McBce in the
lead. '"Y Ood," 'IcBee said, step
ping up to them and looking down
on the sweep of valley while his
hand worried his beard, "she's fair."
Summers saw the wagons down,
slanting them one way and another
so the pitch wouldn't be too steep.
Tlie bottoms were shank-deep in
grass, and flowers waved, and choke
cherries were ripeniiiK. The men
studied the grass and kicked up the
soli and followed the rimmed val
ley with their eyes and allowed
this would be fine farming coun
try If only It wasn't so far fromj
wings.
Evans bobbed his head. "I swear,
Dick, I thought I was tired of
plowln,' but a man want to stick
a plow In this country."
Summers climbed the hill and
rode down it and came Into the
proper valley of the Bear and rode
on and saw an Indian village ahead.
They would be Snakes, he thought.
They would be the friendly Slio
shoncs that he'd lived and traded
with in his long ago. He reined into
the brush. It was Snake all right.
He turned Into the open, his pipe
In his hand, and dogs began to
mark and faces turned, and a man
got up from the ground and stepped
out, waiting, and it came to Sum
mers that this was White Hawk.
"It is good to see my brother."
A snout came out of white Hawk,
and he ran up while Summers dis
mounted and held out his hand like
a white man. saying, "Big Hunter!
I thought you had gone to the spirit
land."
Summers had to hunt for the
words that used to come so easy.
"I have been too many moons
away." Of all the Indians he had
known, the Shoshones were the
friendliest, friendly in a simple,
trustworthy way, though they would
steal you blind like any others.
"There Is meat In my lodge and
a robe to sleep on," White Hawk
aid.
"White Hawk is good. I lead many
white men and their squaws, to
the big water."
"Tell the white brothers to come,
and we will smoke and give pres
ents and trade."
Llje Evans had only part of his
mind on hunting. Another part of
it roamed around, thinking what
he had seen and done and felt
since leaving Independence.
He rode Nellie along the bottom,
looking to the ridges on the side
for sign of antelope or elk or
mountain sheep. It wasn't that the
company was short of meat espe
cially, not with Summers to hunt
it out. not with game plenty and
trout in the Bear. It was just that
he wanted to get away for a while,
to slide out from under the weight
of the captaincy.
The train was lazinir along the
Bear, but for a purpose to strength
en horses and cattle and especially
oxen for what Dick said were stone
deserts high above the Snake. They
had crossed the Bear twice, to round
a mountain that Jagged In from the
east, and had saved a hard climb
by it, though adding to the miles.
Yes. he told himself the train
was in good case. He had a right
to hunt, though it semed he'd go
Dack empty-nanaea. The people
naa got aiong iair witn me In
dians, though the Snakes were
auick and sneakv-handed and had
made off with pots tnd kettles and
knives and a rifle and some pieces
of clothing. Including the many-
pocxetea coac tnat Tadlock liked
to wear.
He let Nellie foot along aimless
while she crooned at the grass. Of
all the land that he had seen this
seemed the richest and the peace
fulest woods, water, pasture, soli
laid down for a plow, all protected
by hills high-rising in the quiet
skv.
Dick had come to mind and he
knew one reason why he kent sav
ing things were all rlgh' with the
train. It was because Dick had
drawn off from him somehow, leav
ing him. he felt, to manage almost
alone. Dick would come if called;
he would hcln if heln was asked:
but still he'd quit the old close
teaming that kent the spirit stout.
He couldn't keen his head off
Dick. Below Big Timber the train
had met up with four of Brideer's
men. four dark and weathered men
who talked snare In front of strang
ers and by themselves, spoke lan
guage strange to settled ears, say
ing -una cnncrs tninKin" ana
" 'pears to this coon" and "we was
froze for meat, we was," and
'wagh."
Evans had sat around their fire
with Dick at night while Dick's
whisky got drunk up and memories
worked and tongues loosened, and
he had felt like an outsider even
with Dick.
He nulled up Nellie's head, think
ing he saw movement. It was an
elk, a young bull by the looks of
him, too distant for a shot.
He reined Nellie over to some
brush and - circled around under
cover and came to the ridge and
uea neuie in a paten 01 trees where
thieving eyes wouldn't find her easy
and went ahead on foot.
The elk leaped with the ball and
fell thrashing in the brush and
Evans went to him and bled him.
Later he led Nellie toward camp,
turning now and then to see that
the elk was riding all right slung
across the saddle. She didn't like
the looks or smell of it and kent
snorting as It shifted to her step.
-wnoa, now, neuie, that there Dun
won't bite you."
He was within a yell of camp be
fore he noticed the men gathered
nearer by the river. He thought,
while a little uneasiness turned in
him, how poor a mountain man he
was. Dick would have spotted the
men first thing.
iTO He uontinued)
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Independence Preceded by
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Amateur Contest
Set for Mill City
Mill City Santiam Lions
club ot Mill City has set April
27 as the date for the annual
amateur show. Auditions for the
show will be held at the regular
Lion's club meetings scheduled
on each Monday night.
Potential candidates are to
contact Lowell Stiffler of Stlff
ler Radio and Appliance; George
Veteto of NuMethod Cleaners;
George Steffy, Canyon Book
keeping service; and Robert Ve
ness of the local theater.
Prizes to be offered to win
ners are: First, $25; second, $15;
third, $10. The contest Is open
to any community in the canyon.
There Is no age limit for contestants.
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