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WESCOTT
THE BOSS
CHASING AN ANTELOPE
A Picneer of trie Plains Tells of
An Exciting but Elusive Chase
For 'His Ludship "
The spring and mi miner of un
til the middle of July, the writer put
in most of his time keeping a ranch
for an Omaha man across the. 1'latte
river, about four miles from 1't. Kear
ney, 2u miles west of the fringe of the
white settlements lining the Missouri
river. A good share of that time the
owner of the ranch left me alone to
care for a small herd of cattle and his
ranch property, while lie attended to
business in Omaha, and in preparing
to move out with his family. The im
migration to the gold regions of the
Kocky mountain country, which was
quite heavy in the spring, slackened
up as the summer came on, and I saw
little of humanity most of the time.
The ranch, so called, consisted of a
a long sd house of one story, having
two w indowsof a single sash each, a 20
foot square addition, built of logs,
chinked and plastered, which was used
as a storeroom, and was fitted up w ith
counter and shelves, in which a small
stock of groceries. Hour and feed were
kept for sale to the traveling public.
The ranch was situated on a raised
plateau or second bottom, a mile and a
half north of the river, and besides a
well, which supplied an abundance of
cold, pure water for all stock which
might come, a long lean-tostable,built
tn the southern slope of the '.M foot
ledge which separated the lower from
the second bottom, afforded shelter
for stock in inclement weather.
This ranch was, at the time, the last
habitation of white men on the north
side of the Platte river and might be
called the 4'jumping-off place"' of civ
ilization. All travel from Omaha to
ward the gold regions here turned to
the south and crossed the Platte by a
ford to the south side, and the only
travel continuing west was that of the
Mormons, bound for Salt Lake, and
government supply trains for Forts
Laramie and Uridger.
A broad, almost level prairie spread
out before the view to the east, north
and west for miles that northward
rising slightly for some rive miles, and
then receding gently to the Wd river
two miles further, so that the tops of
the trees lining the banks of that
stream were barely visible from the
ranch. A line of precipitous blutTs
bounded the horizon to the northwest.
The road toward civilization lead
northeastward and was bordered on
one side by a line of telegraph poles
and wire, then extending as far west
as Fort Kearney. Seven miles away,
near Wood river, on the road to Oma
ha, was Jim Boyd's ranch, the nearest
habitation in that direction. So the
reader can well assume that our ranch
was not burdened with borrowing
neighliors.
Considerable wild game inhabited
the prairies, jack rabbits being plenty,
while antelope abounded as well as
its worst foe, the grey wolf big, fero
cious fellows that could kill a dozen
ordinary hunting dogs was frequent
ly seen. Prairie dog villages lined the
Wood river slope, and beavers abound
ed along that stream. When the grass
came on, in June, great herds of buf
falo came down the valley, fattening
on nature's rich pasture.and for weeks
one could see herds of them roaming
the surrouuding praires.
While the ranch owner was aw ay my
work consisted in caring for the cattle,
watering them, corraling them at
night, and waiting upon the pilgrims
who passed along the ri&d, so that I
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& SONS.
CLOTHIERS.
had little time or chance for hunting
even had I Iteen so disposed.
This might be thought a somewhat
lengthy introduction for a short story,
but I have thus given a picture of the
surroundings so that the reader may
letter understand other chapters of
my experiences on the western border
that may follow, if opportunity affords
me the pleasure to relate them occur
rences that enlivened the humdrum
happenings of every-day life.
One morning I discovered that the
stock of tire wood was exhausted and
it became necessary to get some more.
The easiest place to get fuel was along
the banks of Wood river. So taking
the Ikix from a wagon, fastening an ax
to the reach, I joked a pair of oxen
from the herd, hitched them to the
wagon and was off. It was still early,
and the dew was on the grass. Some
four miles of my journey had been
covered, without an incident, when I
noticed an antelope coming at a flying
pace, in long, measured leaps, up the
divide, a mile ahead of me, and after
watching its movement for a few mo
ments I divined that something unus
ual had frightened the pretty creature
that something was pursuing it
probably one of its arch enemies a
wolf. The agile little animal soon
crossed my course, and as nimbly ran
on to the west. its short white tail dis
closing its whereabouts for miles as it
sped away It would occasionally stop
and take a look backward, as if to get
sight of its pursuing foe, and then
would bound away more energetically
than before determined to put all
possible distance between itself and its
pursuing f oe. It was not long after
this when I began to hear the baying
of hounds, and uv the time my patient
team had almost reached the trail of
the antelope, a pack of fox hounds
came in sight, following its trail, mak
ing the air resonant with their yelp
ings. I could see that the pack was!
well trained, probably belonging to
some man of leisure, w ho was out on
the frontier on a sporting trip, and
said to myself, 'I wonder if the greeny
really thinks his dogs can overtake an
antelope?"
As I passed on, the yelpings and an
tics of the little animals as my team
passed through a village of prairie
dogs, took my mind away from the
thoughts of antelope and hounds, and
reaching the river bank I was soon ac
tively pulling out dry ash and elm
ix les and small trees, that had been
cut down by beavers, cutting them
into suitable lengths, and in a short
hour I was enroute homeward.
It was less than two hours from the
time I had passed the divide until I
had readied it on the return. Before
reaching that point 1 had observed a
number of mounted men .coming from,
the east, riding at a brisk gallop, and
as they approached they appeared to
be dressed in full hunting costume,
with long hose and knee breeches, with
shotguns slung at their sides, and re
volvers at their belts all w earing cor
duroy caps. As they rode up I stopped
my team, and took a survey of the
party. There were six of them all
well mounted, their horses having
short, bushy tails. Their leader, es
pecially was a man of distinguished
appearance and dignified bearing a
heavy pair of mutton-chop whiskers
adorning his handsome face. As he
accosted me, sitting on my load of
poles his first word convinced me that
he was an Englishman.
""Ave you seen hanything hof a deer
runnin' by 'ere this mornin'?" he in
quired. "No, sir, I did not," I said; "I don't
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think there any deer in these parts."
"Well," said he, "Did you notice my
pack hof 'ounds go by 'ere, some time
hago?"
"Yes, I saw a pack of tine looking
hounds pass here nearly two hours ago
on a trail."
"Hand wat sort of a hanimal were
they traiiin'y"
"They were on the trail of an ante
lope."
"A hantelope!" lie exclaimed, "and
wat the 'ell his a hantelope?"
'An antelope, sir, is a brown colored
animal with short horns, long ears, is
about the fleetest thing afoot, and be
longs to the deer family. It has no
particular abiding-place or home, and
when pursued runs straight-away, not
turning on its course for days, per
haps," I said, trying to tell all I knew
on the subject.
"Hand 'ow long do you think hit'll
take the 'ounds to hovertake the han
telope?" "Well, "I drawled out, "If they keep
well on the tjail for a week, without
stopping, or if the antelope should
meet with an accident, they possibly
might wear him out if they weren't
tired out themselves."
The whole party seemed astonished
at this bit of information, and held a
conference over what they should do.
The leader asked where I lived, and
I pointed out the ranch,' far down the
slope toward the shining waters of the
riatte river. Asked whether I thought
it worth while to follow the trail fur
ther, I said they had best use their
own judgment; I thought it worse than
fruitless because the horses would be
worn out, themselves tired out, with
no probability of success. He ex
plained that his was a party of Eng
lish gentlemen who had come to the
west, enroute to the mountains for a
summer outing. The hounds had
started the antelope some thirty miles
down the valley that morning, and
thinking it a deer they had joined in
the chase. Their camping outfit, he
imagined, would reach my place by
night. He and his party would con
tinue on the trail, and see what would
come of it.
At that time Iwas a boy and looked
younger than I really was; and this
may have influenced the party in tak
ing this course, and as I drove on they
galloped off on the clearly visible trail
of the hounds, and long before I ar
livedatthe ranch they had gone out
of sight up the valley.
As night came on ithe camping out
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fit, consisting of two wagons, arrived,
and put up their tent for the night,
from these servants I learned that the
the leader of the hunting party was
an English lord, giving his name,which
I have long since forgotten, and the
others were English gentlemen of leis
ure friends and guest of his "lud
ship," who had brought their outfit of
horses and dogs across the water.
It was near 11 o'clock that when I
was awakened from a souud sleep by
the loud notes of a horn, denoting the
arrival of the hunters. Hastily dress
ing, went out to learn of their luck.
And a sorry sight they presented.
Both men and horses appeared worn
to the limit of endurance hungry
and thirsty. They dropped off their
worn out steeds, slaked their thirst at
the well and went to their tent too
tired to eat leaving the horses to be
cared for by the servants.
Next day I learned that the party
had seen neither dogs nor antelope,
and after following the trail till night
they concluded to return to camp,
leaving the dogs to return when they
chose. Along toward that evening the
hounds came trailing back, fagged
worse, if possible, than the horses had
been.
It only remains for me to add that
when too late the party was ready to
admit that foxhounds and horses were
no match for the running power and
enduring qualities of a Nebraska an
telopeand that they would better
have taken the advice of
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