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Show EXPERIENCES CLOSE CALL' Adjt, James P. Fjeldsted of the local lo-cal post of Black Hawk veterans relates re-lates a bit of experience that fell to his lot about the year 1867, when a boy of 11. The Indians, he states, had driven off a herd of horses from the. east part of Gunnison field, two of the animals belonging to his father. Mr. Fjeld-sted, Fjeld-sted, in company with Daniel Perkins and Henry Allred went in pursuit, tracking the horses to the pass east of Mayfield and thence south about nine miles to the mouth of Willow Creek canyon. Being sundown when they reached that point they decided to pass the night at the farm house of Mr. Fjeldsted's father, down the valley. The boys had proceeded but a short distance when they discovered above them and behind a large pine tree, an Indian with a gun pointed at them ready to fire. To ruu away they feared fear-ed meant their death, so braved the ordeal and succeeded in pursuading the Indian to come down to them, mount one of their horses and show them to the place where the 'Indians camped. There the boys found the horses of which they were in search and readily obtained the animals on promising . to give the Indians two sacks of flour. The next day this band ol Indians went north and two white men were killed at their hands near Spring City. Mr Fjeldsted felt that he and his companions had had a narrow escape from the then treacherous redskins and remembers the incident as a dreaded occasion. |