Show Fifty Frontiersmen By ELMO SCOTT WATSON His a National Monument rO nearly a thousand feet I r IT above e the surrounding country a silent over o the beautiful val valley valley ley of the North Platte rIs rh er It was wasn wasa n a landmark for many a pioneer In the Covered Wagon WaJon days s of the old Oregon Trail It is n a landmark tOday for ninny many nn an automobile tourist speeding west est for when he reaches the city of Scotts Bluff Neb he sees off at the south across the rl riser er this hue bue miss of sandstone which bears the name of Scotts cotts Bluff and perpetuates the name of Hiram BIram Scott As a member of General Ashleys Ashley's famous fUt fit tracing e up rid th Missouri In 1523 Scott had first seen this mountain which was ns to become hIs monument Then he became a free trapper and later a partner with Nar NarCisse close Cisse LeClerq LeClerC In a company of trl trap trappers pers which reaped a rich i of along the headwaters head of the Platte In 1828 1528 they started for St Louis to market their furs A hundred miles up the rh riser er from the mountain Scott was taken ill and left behind with t two 0 trappers Hol and Bissonette who were to bring him do down don n the rh er by bull boat But soon after they launched hunched I the clumsy craft it upset an and all theIr provisions and ammunition were lost They managed to reach Laramie fork GO 00 mIles up the river from the moun tarn tam where I and the others were to await their coming They were ere half starred ed and leaving Scott in camp the other two set out in search of food Then they came acrosS LeClerq's trail and decided to follow follo it and lea lease leae e Scott to his fate When they overtook LeClerq they told him that Scott had died so he pushed on to toward ard St Louts LoUIs nt at his camp near fork the realization soon came to Scott that Ills his friends had deserted him So he set out to follow them themA themA A year later Bissonette and old Joe seeking seel water ater from the spring that gushes from the south southern southern ern slope of Scotts Bluff found a skeleton not far a away Prom the but buttons buttons tons on the fragments of clothing still clinging to the bones and from other trinkets Bissonette recognized the skeleton as that of Hiram Scott Then the stOry of the betrayal of the trap trapper trapper per by his two comrades came out TraditIon n f that Bissonette and Robi deaux buried Uw the remains of Hiram BIram Scott there and nd from that day the sandstone mountain which Illch had been the goal of his weary elry journey was known n as Scotts muff Bluff A few years ago a tract of 2300 2 acres surrounding It was set aside ns as n a public reserve and this natural memorial to Hiram Scott became a national monument a 35 Battles 35 Victories cc of the state of Frank GOVERNOR Go Un SIX sus terms governor go of Tennessee four tImes elected to con congress congress gress a projector and hero of Kings Moun Mountain laIn 35 battled battle 35 victories hie Indian war ar cry was was- n lS Here they are I Come on bo boa s come on I Such is the inscription on one sid side of a monument in Kno me Tenn and It sums up the career of one of the most romantic figures In frontier his that tor of John Sevier Noll y Jack Jacl Born in Ir Virginia mla In 1744 t of a french Huguenot family Sesser Se emigrated to James Robertson's W IV 11 settlement In eastern Tennessee m in 1773 Almost immediately the oung Virginian be became came a leader in various fortis against hostIle Indians Dy By his audacity and the S swiftness and unexpectedness une of his attacks on the Indian towns he broke the spirit of the Cherokees and their allies and prevented pre their being used by the British in a rear attack on the colonies colomes during the Resolution Re fie He used the same tactics In one ot of the most brilliant v over the BritIsh during that war lle He was WIS one of the leaders of the mountain men In theIr swift clash to trap Colonel reI guson and his troops It at Icings moon moun tarn before they could receive aid from Cornwallis and thus contributed to the victory victor at Yorktown town After the Revolution the settlement became an orphan Neither North Carolina nor the new federal government seemed to want It So In 1781 1751 the settlers orga the inde- inde independent pendent state of Franklin n a common commonwealth wealth unique in American histon and elected Nolichucky Jack as theIr governor go When North Carolina tried to ns assert ert Its authority over o the legion again the settlers resisted Their governor gO was singled out for tor punishment treacherously ed and placed on trl rl 1 at for gintown N C 0 for lug high 11 treason And at once more t 1000 of the mown moun tarn men 1 ii to rescue their beloved Tack A ch clil fJ war seemed ImmInent nut Sevier Sener made t 1 spectacular escape from his captors and a 1 short tIme later his people elected shim him to the worth North Carolina Ie lee Thel Three e was some pi protest OHr seating him but e he nl al allowed 10 lowed cd to t tike ll c I ruin rom that time on he was ne never er long out of public life ts congress from North ns as the first governor go of the new state of Jenne 1 see and then repeatedly elected re-elected and thrice re elected to congress He Hedie die died as the he had hll 11 used used-in In ed-In the and in the field The en end came In 1813 In an n a tent on n SUI e Ing expedition fJ fit the gO government surrounded tJ by y his Soldiers 1933 west rn Newspaper Union |