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inexorable, he took off his necktie, strung his finger rings on it, and saying, "Send these to my wife," died as the others.

The other three of the band were arrested soon after for the murder of McGruder, and died by the civil law in the same reckless manner as their leader. All six lie together on the hill overlooking Lewiston, and the earthworks thrown up by Lewis and Clark in their expedition of 1802-3.

Bradley more than once winged his man ; made and lost several fortunes in the mountains, and is now in Arazona, one of my truest and best friends.

Hirst was a singular man. He used to say that if he got through a week without a fight it ruined his digestion.

I think his digestion did not suffer.

No one cared, so long as he fought with men who "came from the shoulder," or were on the u cut and shoot;" but he once fell upon an inoffensive man, nearly took his life, and so left camp at the sugges tion of his friends (?) and drifted north.

It is but justice to this man to state that he really had lost a horse, taken by the Indians under my order for them to procure horses. Yet I had not even suspected this at the time of our encounter, or I could not have borne myself as I did.

Fate, to my dismay, threw us together at Canon City, Oregon. I led the settlers and miners in a long and disastrous campaign against the Indians there, and Hirst was as brave and reckless th