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Show THE BULLETIN' Matron's Dress With Vestee ill Williams, Piaster Trapper o 3 o By ELMO SCOTT WATSON Jedediah Strong Smith is commonly regarded as ALTHOUGH to the title of American Ulysses there was once another who, in many respects, was a better prototype of the Shooter" the Osages named legendary Greek hero. him. "Parson Williams" he became when, as a youth of seventeen, he left his home in Missouri to ride the circuit as a Baptist hell-fir- e and brimstone to the unrepentant. preacher, threatening "Old Solitaire his fellow trappers called him. But frontier history has written him down as Old Bill Williams, one of the most picturesque figures that ever galloped across the stage of the Great West in an era when strong individuality and picturequesness were the rule rather than the exception. r Along with history, legend has upon many phaica of our national also marked him for its own, as srowth from tha tlmo of tho Revowitness a quotation from a lutionary war to tha and of tha westward azpanalon. Hia parenta lived book published recently by the In a part of tha eountry where doubt and mlHunderstandlns of the leaders University of North Carolina of our eountry had become the comPress. It is Old Bill Williams, mon attitude of the people toward the government Hia kinfolk were Mountain Man, written by among the Regulators of North CarAlpheus II. Favour, who says: olina, and hia father, although a Red-Head- ed Fiction and fact have been Revolutionary aoldler with yeara of service, emigrated Into what waa then a foreign land. Born In the early days of the American republic, ha lived under so mixed in the fragmentary account we have of the life of on the plains and Bill lyflliams One of us must be Williams! ready for dinner." After Ave years, however, Williams gave up his circuit riding and settled among his boyhood friends, the Osage Indians, as a missionary. For the next 15 years he lived among the Indians. He married a girl of the Big Hill band of the Osages and she bore him two daughters. During these 15 years he became a changed man. When the United States government established the "factory system of trading with the Indians, the Arst trading post west of the Mississippi was located at Belle Fontaine. It was succeeded by one at Arrow Rock and in 1808 Fort Osage was established east of the present town of Independence, Mo. Williams Arst began serving the government as a messenger between these trading posts and St. Louis. In 1817 he was employed as interpreter at Fort Osage and four years later he was made official interpreter at the factory at Marais des principal in one of the greatest disasters in exploration that ever befell any guide engaged during the history of the Rockies a disaster which was to be the contributing cause of his death, where his ability as a scout and guide would be brought into controversy, and In the Anal chapter, result in the perpetuation of his name in Arizona by the naming of a river and a mountain for him." But that is exactly what happened. For Williams almost froze to death, almost starved to death and after Fremont and the remnants of his expedition had straggled back to Taos he This dress designed with soft capelet sleeves and a contrasting vestee is one of those perennial styles. It is always a pleasure to show by popular request. Theyre so universally becoming FREMONTS PARTY SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS SNOW-BOUN- D in the western mountains that, although he stands out in most of them as a prominent mountain man and master trapper, in many ways he has come to be regarded as a legendary character. Certain of his characteristics are always emphasized in the records of his doings: his early calling as an itinerant preacher in Missouri; his efforts as a missionary among the Osages; his eccentric habits; his drinking of quantities of strong liquor; his ability to speak many different Indian tongues; and Anally his capability as a hunter and his peculiar method of Indian fight-inSearch the records as you 3 O may, Old Bill Williams never seems to have had any youth, for he is usually referred to as a trapper who had been many years in the West. A number of different versions of his death have been given, ranging from a ceremonial execution as a medicine man of the Utes in the Southwest to a violent death at the hands of the Blackfeet in the Northwest. The stories told of Williams are more varied than those of any other man of his time, and leave the casual reader in uncertainty as to the real man, or in doubt, indeed, if there ever did exist such a character outside of Action. However, Mr. Favours reinto the available searches source material has set at rest any such doubts and has given IN THE authority aa a boy, and atarted hia own carter at tha time Jelfcraon, Uvlngaton and Monroe effected tha Loulaiana Purchaao. In manhood he became a part of the life of the plalna and mountains. He aaw the Indiana puahed back, the New Mexican dlapoaaeaaed, and California taken all In one lifetime, . . . Aa we follow him through life we And him a member of an average early American family, then a trapper and hunter. Anally emerging Into one of the moat noted of the mountain men. Ukewlae we can follow In hia career the changea and develop-ment- a of tha Weat from a wllderneaa of the Louisiana Purchase of 1103 Into a compact aectlon of our country at tha time of hia death. The wanderings of this Amer lean Ulysses becomes more understandable when we consider his ancestry. He came of a line Spanlah of Welshmen, restless and trail. When the fur trade era ended Bill Williams, Master Trap- per, as he signed himself, had to look around for new fields of adventure. He found them in the role of guide for the military and exploring expeditions which began to penetrate the West in the forties. In 1845 Williams served for a time with the third exploring expedition of Capt. John C. Fremont, marked for future fame as "The Pathfinder" even though he deserved that title much less than did some of the mountain men who guided him, notably Kit Carson. In the early summer of 1848 Send 15 cents for your copy. 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ROYAL accused Williams of stupidity, even cannibalism. treachery, These charges, according to Favour, grew partly out of Fremonts desire to shift responsibility for the failure of the expedition with its loss of life from his own shoulders to some convenient scapegoat and partly, several years later, out of the necessity of grooming a tarnished hero for a Presidential candidacy. Old Bill didnt live to defend himself but other members of the Fremont expedition came to the support of the mountain man to clear his reputation and historians of today, including Old Bills biographer, have accepted their ver- PE-K- EDGE BUT U. & JARRUfl-BERS- TIGHT. AND THEIR TWO BIG UPS MAKE THEM EASY TO Pattern to larger and more mature worn' No. 19Q7-- B en, and so adaptable to conventional occasions. The model shown is a clever street frock which takes into consideration the fitting problem encountered by many women whose tastes incline toward conservative rather than complicated dressmaking. 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Even at that early period St. Louis was the center of the fur trade and young Williams saw "French voyageurs with their keel boats and barges going up and down the river, within sight of the Williams home. The de bois traveled over the old Trace past the Williams cabin, going into the trapping country and returning to St. Louis . laden with their packs of furs. All this became part of young Bill Williams life. He grew up, from his Arst remembrance in the atmosphere of that trade. He also grew up in a religious atmosphere, for Sarah Williams was a recognized authority on the Bible among the American Although restrictions settlers. were placed upon freedom of religion by the Spanish rulers of the country, they were removed when the Upper Province of Louisiana, including St. Louis, passed from the control of Spain to France and immediately to the United States in 1804. A religious reviVal, then sweeping across the Middle West, helped foster more interest in spiritual matters. So it was not so unusual that young Bill Williams, with his religious training and his gift for speech (he is described at the time as a ready talker, witty and quick at repartee") should begin to preach. Within a short time he was riding a regular circuit and Williams once said of himself that he was so well known that even the chickens at the farms which he visited knew him and would exclaim: "Here comes Parsor cou-reu- rs 0 o GEN. JOIIN C. FREMONT us the first full-leng- th biography It traces his career from his birth on January 3, 1787, on Horse creek in Rutherford county, North Carolina, to his death at the hands of the Utes on the Up- of this famous frontiersman. per Rio Grande in southern Colorado on March 14, 1849, and reports in as much detail as can possibily be done the Odyssey of Old Bill Williams. Interesting as an individual, William Sherlcy Williams such was Old Bills full name is more important as a type, as a symbol of an era in American history, the like of which can never be duplicated. For, says his biog- rapher: Hia Ufa colneldta with and touche OLD BILL WILLIAMS AT COCHETOPA PASS (From the painting by Marjorie Thomas) Old Bill served as a scout with the Missouri Volunteers against the hostile Apaches and Utes and was the hero of the Battle of Cumbres Pass. Although he was "shot in the arm, shattering it most horribly, he managed to use it so as to keep his rifle hot and during the engagement won from the commander of the troops, in his report of the battle, this accolade: "Williams, a celebrated though mountaineer, wounded badly, behaved himself gallantly in the engagement. Williams went back to Taos to recover from his wounds and late that fall went up to Pueblo. Colo., to spend the winter there To with some old comrades. Pueblo in November came Fremont on his fourth expedition and although all the mountain men advised the army officer against trying to cross the passes in the winter, Fremont prevailed upon Williams to un Jertake the job of guiding. Li tie did he expect that in a few I.e tvn to become short snow-fille- d . THEY SEAL FLAVOR IN leave behind during the retreat from the mountains. On March 14, 1849, their camp was attacked by a party of Utes and both Kern and Williams were killed at the first fire. Afterwards when the Indians discovered whom they had killed, they gave the old trapper a chiefs burial. His grave is unmarked but he has an enduring monument. Down in Arizona there is a beautiful green, wooded mountain, a towering solitary peak above the foothills at its base, characteristic of Bill Williams Old Solitaire and not far distant is the mountain stream, quiet and peaceful, or, after a storm, a rushing torrent, emblematic of the human career, whose life as a mountain man helped to save the plains and mountains of the Louisiana PurBoth chase to this country. that mountain peak and that dream bear the name of Bill .Wiliams. f i'1 . Uni, SO FIRTfEK BEFORE YOU NEED A QUART Provo ft for yourself with die First Quart test. Drain snd refill with Quaker State Motor OiL Note die mileage. See how much farther you go before yon have to add the tell-tal- e first quart. Quaker State Oil Refining Company, Oil Gty, Pennsylvania. Retail Price ... 35f per quart. |