Show r A hat hats 8 inTHE jn- jn THE GREAT OUTDOORS i iBy By By Stan Taggart I I I I I Mr MI and Mrs rs Paul Beard Deard picked up 15 arrowheads in Just two hours bours at Wanship last last month month- and combing a newly discovered camp campground on on Wyoming's Cumberland Cumberland Cum Cum- berland Flat recently the Coalville Coal Coal- ille ville couple found Coun an additional two dozen old Indian hunting points But Dut Ill I'll tell you ou a fellow really built up a fine collection ina in ina a hurr hurry says Paul and that's Pete Foust Although hes he's actually actually actu actu- I ally a Summit County boy Petes Pete's been heen located at the Aiken Gas GasI Plant out by Church Buttes Wyoming Wyoming Wyo Wyo- ming for foi two years now nos 7 miles east of Lyman Whenever Pete and his wife find the time they just climb I i I I into their jeep and motor off i across the flats Then they i point their vehicle at random and bounce off to some remote I hitherto I Indian n d I a n camping ground I Mr r. r and Mrs Irs Foust almost invariably in in- variably return home with a wealth of fine old reds redskin kin relics I I know I was up visiting with them a short time ago and they had already collected almost a thousand assorted arrowheads tools and other artifacts The Foust's Rousts neighbor Mr Singer has a I tion Hes He's been relic hunting I for years yeara and hes he's the one who got them interested i I While on my vacation laHI last laH j I week says sas Paul I picked up upa upu a war bonnet in Cody Colly Wyoming that e l' been after fo for quite some time A man in Jackson had a abow abow abow bow which was made by Chief and he promised me each each summer summer that if he ever parted parted part part- ed with it I could have first chance Well when I visited there last week it was gone Was I ever disappointed I I IThe The first thing I do upon arriving at a town or village Is Inquire as to who has hll Indian relics When I made thus this Inquiry at Gilette Wyoming last week week they directed d me to the home of an year old cowboy who has haa hasa a marvelous collection found em around Gilette GUette here the timer old said ald pl pointing at his vast accumulation of In In- made dian-made dian objects Din Bin here all m life life an an all allI I know is horses hones an an Indian stuff The only disappointing thing about his hi relics relic Paul observed was waa that the old fellow had coated every darn one of them with A few days ago just after Paul returned from his annual trip a Salt Lake youth drove to Coalville and presented the storekeeper storekeeper store store- keeper with BOme some val valuable able old stone tone pipe bowls and Indian toys toya made of or beads bead and porcupine porcupine porcu porcu- pine quill work The boy had bad rescued rescued re reo re- re cued them from the ashes of a ajun jun Junk dealer incinerator I I. I Paul Beards Beard's 60 0 years fur as II a collector of remnants of the vanishing race have placed him la I. contact with some very colorful colorful color color- ful and fascinating people The stories Morlea passed palled on by Pauls Paul's hundreds hun hunt deeds of 0 acquaintances and the histories behind his hi thousands of 0 artifacts would fill fall vol m. m of books but books but Paul recalls recall them all off e off by heart by-heart e e eA A A. sample of or Pour Paul's innumerable able authentic tales of the past put My 11 father tather George heard Beard wu was I very In la Indians animals animal anI and the out out doors doors of-doors Paul begins be tie- gins Chief Chier and his tribe often otten camped here at Coalville In Dads Dad day and be he would tr frequent frequent- ly 1 go up to visit with them Early In the summer of 1880 Dad Cad Frank Par Parker er G. G Y Bullock Bullock Bul Bul- I lock and Frank Croft loaded down f horses mounted four others and headed out to explore the remote J Jackson a c k k s o 0 n Hole country Dad was an artist and had planned this trip for quite some time wanting to to get some p photographs and paintings painting of that beautiful virgin country coun count try The four men chose the roughest rough rough- est route the they could find riding from here up Echo Canyon turnIng turning turn turn- Ing up Heiner Reiner Canyon Canon on to Woodruff o er the mountains to Cokeville to Lake Alice to the head of Grays Gray's River niver over the I Hoback Range flange and down into Jackson Hole I While camped at Lake Alice the men saw several bear and Parker and Croft were very I frightened reluctant to leave camp and move on the following morning I A few miles milE's short of their destination the adventurers ad came upon upon a frayed wall tent Upon entering it they Found all kinds of supplies and equipment e even een en a loaded rifle on a cot Outside an axe was Imbedded imbedded im mm- I bedded in a stump They concluded con con eluded that the camps camp's occupant roughly two years jears ears earlier had I just walked away away to to be taken by bya a i heart attack ambushed b by a abEar abear abear bear scalped or victimized by any of the dozens of other fates which commonly befell living hard-living frontiersmen Upon their arrival at Jackson Jackson Jack Jack- son on Hole Dad and his hi three friends m met t and became acquainted acquainted ac aCt with one of the areas area's few early settlers The sinewy leather cheeked pioneer had brought his hi wagons wagon board by board wheel by wheel over Teton Pass Paes and down Into the valley on the backs back of mules mule Dads new friend and his I farming neighbors called themselves them them- themselves selves The Honest Settlers to set themselves apart from the numerous thieves and outlaws who frequented that area at one time A few days later the four Coalville sightseers sightseer made their tamp camp amp further north on the thore there of beautiful Jennys Jenny's Lake As A. they prepared camp tamp that evening they glanced about at atthe atthe th the erect of an Indian village Looking through the trees they could also alo see where the red men had been I cutting fresh to re replace replace reo re- place the weathered ones one At daylight the next morning the four men split pm Into pairs Bullock Bul Dul lock and Croft rode out to shoot a moose while Dad and Parker nosed moved off oft to take pictures of Jackson Lake Bullock Dullock and Croft Croll killed a n large larg bull Paul has a photo of it Dad and Parker got their pictures and the four men met re-met late that afternoon for the return to campAs camp As they the clearing at Jennys Jenny's Lake that evening the men gasped In disbelief There surrounding their small camp were dozens dozen of I tepees and approximately four hundred milling Indians Oh no Dad groaned our supplies my paints everything e will be one gone How will Ill we e ever get home When helf th the apprehensive men walked among the red redskins skins and up to their supplies however hove they received a second bl big sur sur- prise feet had b beaten aten a distinct dust dusty ring around their camp camp yet yet absolutely nothing had been touched b by the curious tribe members Dad and his companions soon became friends with those Indians In In- Indians and learned leaned that their Chief had brought ht the Shoshone band into the valley to kill elk moose deer and antelope for t the e winter The next morning antelope covered the flats for asfar afar as a. the eye could see son John Grass and other Indians were firing occasional shots pot-shots at them but were only managIng managing manag manag- ing to frighten them a bit Then Dad Impulsively threw up his hi rifle fired and made a miraculously miraculously mirac mirac- lucky long shot The Shoshones gazed in eyed bug-eyed disbelief as the big buck pronghorn pronghorn prong prong- horn dropped in his tracks After that bit of good fortune Dads Dad's every wish became became became be be- came those thole admiring Indians Indians' command Paul al also has a proto photo of the antelope When hen the oak leaves began to brighten and Dads Dad's party prepared ed to head for home they noted that the summer long trip bad had completely worn out th their theft lr shoes Friendly Chief tribesmen sold them 21 24 pair of moccasins I for three dollars The four men passed through the south end of Jackson Jackon Hole bid farewell to their honest honed settler set tier Ut r friend and trailed their nine nine- horse string back ack up over the high Hoback Along the trail home Dad pulled down a full cartridge belt that mysteriously was wu swaying In n an aspen alpen tree Its Ita cartridges fit his rifle perfectly perfect perfect- perfect ly Iy Paul still has hu the belt and cartridges I can Ima imagine the men had bad little trouble finding willing whang eats ears here Lere in Coalville that fall tall and winter to winter to listen as a. the they told re-told their many colorful adventures e nine Forty years rears later In to 1929 George Beard Deard and his hi son eon Paul Pan went on a hunting trip to Jack Jack- son on Old George Immediately entered entered en en- the towns town's lone hardware store to inquire about his old friend the honest settler ettler George was waa thrilled to learn tear that by sheer heer coincidence the theman theman theman man was seated In the back of elf that very hardware store torel 1 The timer old recalled George Beard Beald the moment he saw laW him and rid the parted long-parted friends reminisced remiss remiss- laced their past experiences for three hours houri while young Paul listened In n awed tion STAN |