During the three months of Benton's existence, the town provided an interesting contrast. On one hand, it had twenty-five saloons and five dance halls. The largest of the saloons was a canvas structure referred to as the "Big Tent," 100 feet in depth, 40 feet wide, and in back there were canvas cubicles in which nymphs du pave plied their trade. Immediately next to the cubicles, a physician had set up shop to cure any maladies that may have been contracted in the cubicles. Zane Grey in his UPR Trail described the bar:
[I]t had been brought complete from St. Louis * * * . It seemed a huge, glittering, magnificent monstrosity in that coarse, bare setting. Wide mirrors, glistening bottles, paintings of nude women, row after row of polished glasses, a brawny, villainous barkeeper, with three attendants, all working fast, a line of rough, hoarse men five deep before the counter--all these things constituted a scene that had the aspects of a city and yet was redolent with an atmosphere no city ever knew. The drinkers were not all rough men. There were elegant black-hatted, frock-coated men of leisure in that line--not directors and commissioners and traveling guests of the U. P. R., but gentlemen of chance. Gamblers!
Zane Grey continues with the scene at night:
The sun set, the twilight fell, the wind went down, the dust settled, and night mantled Benton. The roar of the day became subdued. It resembled the purr of a gorging hyena. The yellow and glaring torches, the bright lamps, the dim, pale lights behind tent walls, all accentuated the blackness of the night and filled space with shadows, like specters. Benton's streets were full of drunken men, staggering back along the road upon which they had marched in. No woman now showed herself. The darkness seemed a cloak, cruel yet pitiful. It hid the flight of a man running from fear; it softened the sounds of brawling and deadened the pistol-shot. Under its cover soldiers slunk away sobered and ashamed, and murderous bandits waited in ambush, and brawny porters dragged men by the heels, and young gamblers in the flush of success hurried to new games, and broken wanderers sought some place to rest, and a long line of the vicious, of mixed dialect, and of different colors, filed down in the dark to the tents of lust.
Life indoors that night in Benton was monstrous, wonderful, and hideous.
Every saloon was packed, and every dive and room filled with a hoarse, violent mob of furious men: furious with mirth, furious with drink, furious with wildness--insane and lecherous, spilling gold and blood.
The gold that did not flow over the bars went into the greedy hands of the cold, swift gamblers or into the clutching fingers of wild- eyed women. The big gambling-hell had extra lights, extra attendants, extra tables; and there round the great glittering mirror-blazing bar struggled and laughed and shouted a drink-sodden mass of humanity. And all through the rest of the big room groups and knots of men stood and sat around the tables, intent, absorbed, obsessed, listening with strained ears, watching with wild eyes, reaching with shaking hands--only to gasp and throw down their cards and push rolls of gold toward cold-faced gamblers, with a muttered curse. This was the night of golden harvest for the black-garbed, steel-nerved, cold-eyed card-sharps. They knew the brevity of time, and of hour, and of life. In the dancing-halls there was a maddening whirl, an immense and incredible hilarity, a wild fling of unleashed, burly men, an honest drunken spree. But there was also the hideous, red-eyed drunkenness that did not spring from drink; the unveiled passion, the brazen lure, the raw, corrupt, and terrible presence of bad women in absolute license at a wild and baneful hour.
Benjamin Marks
Professional gamblers infested all of the end-of-track towns. In Cheyenne, 19-year old Ben Marks arrived in 1867, but soon discovered that there was much competition. He hit upon a profitable solution, he opened a "Dollar Store" in which highly attractive merchandise was displayed in the window priced at only a dollar. When greed for the very much underpriced goods sucked customers in, they would be diverted to a game of three-card monte. In the game, the customers would be stripped of all money and, thus, there was no danger of the goods actually being sold.
During Benton's brief existence, reputedly over 100 souls met their Maker in gunfights. One visitor referred to Benton as "nearer a repetition of Sodom and Gomorrah than any other place in America."
On the other hand, General Grant during his 1868 visit to Wyoming visited the town. Additionally, the town in August and September 1868, provided the jumping off location for 2,000 Saints in 5 companies heading to Utah. Of Benton, early western travel writer Samuel Bowles (1826-1878) wrote:
When we were on the line, this congregation of scum and wickedness was within the Desert section, and was called Benton. One to two thousand men, and a dozen or two women were encamped on the alkali plain in tents and board shanties; not a tree, not a shrub, not a blade of grass was visible; the dust ankle deep as we walked through it, and so fine and volatile that the slightest breeze loaded the air with it, irritating every sense and poisoning half of them; a village of a few variety stores and shops, and many restaurants and grog-shops; by day disgusting, by night dangerous; almost everybody dirty, many filthy, and with the marks of lowest vice; averaging a murder a day; gambling and drinking, hurdy-gurdy dancing. Like its predecessors, it fairly festered in corruption, disorder and death, and would have rotted, even in this dry air, had it outlasted a brief sixty-day life. But in a few weeks its tents were struck, its shanties razed, and with their dwellers moved on fifty or a hundred miles farther to repeat their life for another brief day. Where these people came from originally; where they went to when the road was finished, and their occupation was over, were both puzzles too intricate for me. Hell would appear to have been raked to furnish them; and to it they must have naturally returned after graduating here, fitted for its highest seats and most diabolical service.
Buffalo Bulls Protecting Their Herd, W. M. Cary, Harper's Weekly, 1873
Wolves would follow buffalo herds, picking off calves or the elderly. The wolves were, however, not a match for the bulls who could easily with their horns, as illustrated in the woodcut, flip a wolf into the air and then trample the wolf to death. The real decimation of the buffalo population, however, did not start until the 1870's when wholesale slaughter began.
Sir William was not, however, completely childless, having had a son by a lady saloon keeper in America. In his will, he left the estate to that son, Frank Nichols. The estate being entailed, however, could not be left to an illegimate son. Thus, cousins inherited the castle, but the contents, being personal property, were not entailed and went to Nichols. In an act of revenge to his cousins, Nichols cleaned the castle out and sold the paintings and other items at auction in Endinburgh. There, many items were purchased by Americans and returned to the United States. The bisons made their way to a local zoo where their descendants continue to live.
In addition to Sir William Stewart, other members of the British peerage conducted early expeditions to the West. Among the more notable was Sir St. George Gore's 1855-56 hunting trip out of Fort Laramie guided by Jim Bridger. Bridger was paid $750 for his services. Sir St. George, accomanied for part of the journey by William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam (later the Sixth Earl of Fitzwilliam of Irland, Fourth Earl Fitzwilliam of England), did it up in fine style with 40 attendants (including one individual whose function was to tie fishing flies),112 horses, 12 yoke of oxen, 6 wagons, 23 wheeled carts, 75 shooting rifles, 14 dogs, china, crystal, linens, and a collapsible brass bed used in a green and white striped tent in whch, much to the consternation of Jim Bridger, his lordhip would sleep late. Fitzwilliam later was to be the owner of the largest private "house" in Britain, a modest little structure with a 600 foot long facade and 200 rooms. On the trip, 6,000 bison, 1,600 elk and 105 grizzlies were killed.
At Fort Union, Sir St. George, in a dispute relating to the sale of some of the equipment, ordered everything burned except the arms and alcohol. While the wagons and carts burned, the spectators consumed the alcohol. The last item thrown into the confligration was the expedition journal. The expedition continued, however, until it came to an unexpected halt near present day Sundance when the Sioux stole the expedition's horses, arms and clothes. As a result, Sir St. George offered to raise a private army to do to the Sioux what he did to the Bison. The American Army refused the offer.
In 1874, Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin, 4th Earl of Dunraven (See Yellowstone), toured the Upper Yellowstone. The dapper Dunraven, a noted world traveler and war correspondent, with Texas Jack Omohundro as his guide, toured Yellowstone. Two years later his account of his travels was published as Dunraven's The Great Divide: A Narrative of Travels in the Upper Yellowstone in the Summer of 1874. With Maps and numerous striking full page-Illustrations by Valentine W. Bromley. The book was an immediate success. Thus, at least among the very wealthy, it became almost de regueur to take extensive hunting trips to the American West. Among those who came to Wyoming, as discussed on later pages, were Sir Horace Plunkett and Moreton Frewen and his brother Richard Frewen. Dunraven established a hunting preserve and hotel at Estes Park, Colorado, and Frewen entertained the wealthy with elaborate hunting trips from his log castle on Powder River.
For the most part, trappers had a short life expectancy. James O. Pattie (1804-c1850) in his 1831 Personal Narative recounted his trapping adventures between 1827 and 1830 through the Rockies and to California. He observed that of 116 men who set out from St. Louis in 1824, by 1827 most were dead:
Some had died by lingering diseases, and others by the fatal ball or arrow, so that out of 116 men, who came from the United States in 1824, there were not more than sixteen alive. Most of the fallen were as true men, and as brave as ever poised a rifle, and yet in these remote and foreign deserts found not even the benefit of a grave, but left their bodies to be torn by the wild beasts, or mangled by the Indians. When I heard the sad roll of the dead called over, and thought how often I had been in equal danger, I felt grateful to my Almighty Benefactor, that I was alive and in health. A strong perception of the danger of such courses as mine, as shown by the death of these men, came over my mind, and I made a kind of resolution, that I would return to my home, and never venture into the woods again. Among the number of my fallen companions, I ought not to forget the original leader of our company, Mr. Pratte, who died in his prime, of a lingering disease, in this place.
[Writer's notes: Mr. Pratte, Sylvestre Sebastien Pratte, born 1799. Pratte is believed to have died along the headwaters of the Platte River in 1827 or 1828. Pratte was the son of Bernard Pratte a partner in Pratte, Chouteau and Company, agents for the American Fur Company.]
James Pattie's father, Sylvester Pattie, was on the expedition with his son. The elder Pattie died in a Mexican prison when the Patties' passport was not accepted by a local commander. Other trappers lost their lives to Indians and wild animinals. Jacques LaRamee [as previously observed, possibly Missouri free trapper Louis Lorimier, Jr.], after whom the river, the mountain, the county, the fort and the city are named, disappeared to do beaver trapping along a tributary of the Platte. Bridger in 1868 told John Hunton that Bridger had been a part of the 1821 search party which found only a half completed cabin and a broken beaver trap. Bridger indicated that two years later he was told by the Arapaho that they had killed LaRamee and placed his body under the ice behind a beaver dam.
Three of the five Sublette Brothers died early: Pickney was killed by the Blackfeet at the Battle of Pierre's Hole in 1832; Milton died of a leg infection at Fort Laramie after several amputations; and Andrew died as a result of being mauled by a grizzly in California. Andrew was doing battle with a grizzly when a second grizzly came out of the woods. Notwithstanding that Andrew's gun was out of amnuition, in a fierce battle he was able to dispatch both grizzlies with a knife. Andrew and his dog, however, were badly mauled. Mortally wounded, Andrew lingered for a while in his bed. His faithful dog stayed by the bedside until Andrew expired. The dog followed his master's body to the grave side. There the dog stayed, refusing to leave, and refusing drink and food until he too died.
Jedediah Smith
Jedediah Strong Smith was also attacked by a grizzly. Jim Clyman described the surgery which may have saved Smith's life (Punctuation, capitalization at beginings of sentences, and paragraphing have been added for purposes of clarity. Original spelling and mid-sentence capitalization are as in original.):
The Crow Indians being our place of destination, a half Breed by the name of Rose who spoke the crow tongue was dispached ahead to find the Crows and try to induce some of them to come to our assistance. We to travel directly west as near as circumstances would permit. Supposing we ware on the waters of Powder River, we ought to be within the bounds of the Crow country. Continueing five days travel since leaveing our given out horses and likewise Since Rose left us.
Late in the afternoon while passing through a Brushy bottom, a large Grssely came down the vally, we being in single file men on foot leding pack horses. He struck us about the center. Then turning, ran paralel to our line.
Capt. Smith being in the advanc. He ran to the open ground and as he immerged from the thicket, he and the bear met face to face. Grissly did not hesitate a moment but sprung on the capt, taking him by the head. First pitcing sprawling on the earth, he gave him a grab by the middle. Fortunately cathing by the ball pouch and Butcher Kife which he broke, but breaking several of his ribs and cutting his head badly.
None of us having any sugical Knowledge what was to be done, one Said, "come take hold," and he wuld say, "why not you?" So it went around. I asked Capt what was best. He said, "One or 2 for water and if you have a needle and thread git it out and sew up my wounds around my head," which was bleeding freely. I got a pair of scissors and cut off his hair and then began my first Job of dessing wounds. Upon examination, I, the bear had taken nearly all his head in his capcious mouth, close to his left eye on one side and clos to his right ear on the other, and laid the skull bare to near the crown of the head, leaving a white streak whare his teeth passed. One of his ears was torn from his head out to the outer rim. After stitching all the other wounds in the best way I was capabl and according to the captains directions, the ear being the last. I told him I could do nothing for his Eare. "0 you must try to stich up some way or other," said he. Then I put in my needle stiching it through and through and over and over, laying the lacerated parts togather as nice as I could with my hands.
Water was found in about ame mille, when we all moved down and encamped. The captain being able to mount his horse and ride to camp, whare we pitched a tent, the onley one we had, and made him as comfortable as circumtances would permit. This gave us a lisson on the charcter of the grissly Baare which we did not forget.
In 1831, Jedediah Smith was guiding a wagon train to Sante Fe. The train took the shorter Cimmarron Cutoff notorious for its lack of water. With the caravan running short of water, Smith volunteered to seek out a spring. Along the Cimmarron, Smith was killed by a Comanchee arrow. His body was never recovered. In his last letter to Robert Cambell's brother Hugh, Smith expressed the hope of seeing his protégé but one more time, "Oh is it possible I Shall never again See him in the Land of the living?"
"The Bar Tore Carver to Pieces," Frederic Remington, 1888
Hugh Glass survived a mauling by a grizzly, was left for dead by his compatriots, and crawled with a broken leg, on two elbows, and one knee over one hundred miles. His life was probably saved by another grizzly and by maggots in his wounds. On the journey, Glass passed out and awakened to find the grizzly licking the maggots out of Glass's open wounds. There is evidence both scientifically and anecdotally that saliva contains antiseptic aspects. Some animal saliva may contain lysozyme, an enzyme that destroys harmful bacteria. The licking may provides direct stimulation of the tissues and small blood vessels surrounding the wound site. Because of risk of infection, it is not recommended that one allow animals to lick wounds. The use of maggots to debride wounds has been traced back to the Napoleonic Wars. In this country, the first intentional use of maggots for such purposes was apparently by a Confederate surgeon, J. F. Zacharias, at Danville, Virginia to aid in the treatment of gangrene. See, Baer, William S., "The Treatment of Chronic Osteomylitis with the Maggot (Larva of the Blow Fly)," Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, 1931. In spite of, or maybe because of, the unorthodox treatment of his wounds by the maggots and the bear, Glass fully recovered and returned to trapping. Along with two companions, he was killed by Indians in 1833.
John Hoback, after whom Hoback Basin, Hoback River, Hoback Peak, and numerous other places in the West are named, was killed along with the Reed wintering brigade by Indians in 1813. During the War of 1812, Astoria was surrendered to the British. One of the former members of the company at Astoria, Gabriel Franchère, commenced his epic journey by canoe and foot across the continent to Montreal. In his 1820 account of his adventures, Relation d'un voyage a la Cote du NordOuest de l'Amerique septentrionale darts les anndes 1810'14 (1854 translation by Jedediah Vincent Huntington), Franchère reported the death of Hoback (spelled "Hubbough"):
On the 17th, the fatique I had experienced the day before, on horseback, obliged me to re-embark in my canoe. About eight o'clock, we passed a little river flowing from the N.W. We perceived, soon after, three canoes, the persons in which were struggling with their paddles to overtake us. As we were still pursuing our way, we heard a child's voice cry out in French -- "arrétez donc, arrétez donc" -- (stop! stop!). We put ashore, and the canoes having joined us, we perceived in one of them the wife and children of a man named Pierre Dorion, a hunter, who had been sent on with a party of eight, under the command of Mr. J. Reed, anomg the Snakes, to join there the hunters left by Messers. Hunt and Crooks, near Fort Henry, and to secure horses and provisions for our journey. This woman informed us, to our no small dismay, of the tragical fate of all those who composed that party. She told us that in the month of January, the hunters being dispersed here and there, setting their traps for the beaver, Jacob Regner, Gilles Leclerc, and Pierre Dorion, her husband, had been attacked by the natives. Leclerc, having been mortally wounded, reached her tent or hut, where he expired in a few minutes, after having announced to her that her husband had been killed. She immediately took two horses that were near the lodge, mounted her two boys upon them, and fled in all haste to the wintering house of Mr. Reed, which was about five days' march from the spot where her husband fell. Her horror and disappointment were extreme, when she found the house -- a log cabin -- deserted and upon drawing nearer, was soon convinced, by the traces of blood, that Mr. Reed also had been murdered. No time was to be lost in lamentations, and she had immediately fled toward the mountains south of the Walawalla, where, being impeded by the depth of the snow, she was forced to winter, having killed both the horses to subsist herself and her children. But at last, finding herself out of provisions, and the snow beginning to melt, whe had crossed the mountains with her boys, hoping to find some more humane Indians, who would let her live among them till the boats from the fort below should be ascending the river in the spring, and so reached the banks of the Columbia, by the Wallawalla. Here, indeed, the natives had received her with much hospitality, and it was the Indians of the wallawalla who brought her to us. We made them some presents to repay their care and pains, and they returned well satisfied.
The persons who lost their lives in this unfortunate wintering party, were Mr. John Reed, (clerk), Jacob Rener, John Hubbough, Pierre Dorion (hunters), Gilles Leclerc, François Landry, J. B. Turcotte, André la Chapelle and Pierre De Launay, (voyageurs).
Franchère notes that Turcotte died of "King's Evil" and that DeLaunay left Reed in t
James Pierson Beckwourth.
Jim Beckwourth (1798-1866), who had participated in Ashley's expeditions was one of the few mountain men to lead a full life. He acted as a scout in the Second Seminole War in Florida, went to California where he rustled horses from Spanish-owned ranches, ran a store in Denver and in his 60's acted as a guide for the army including at the Battle of Sand Creek. In 1866, he acted as a scout for Col. Henry B. Carrington's expeditions into northern Wyoming. Col. Carrington in his report of November 14, 1866, noted Beckwourth's passing:
Only valuable information since last week's mail is that Crows in large numbers have camped near Fort C.F. Smith, and are friendly.
Guide Beckwith [sic] died while in their village.
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Thanks to everyone who responded. It was greatly appreciated.
I was trying to cut and paste the new information into the old Excel File. But my mistake was when I tied to paste the copied information, I was only selecting one cell, so I kept getting an error message that the copied selection would not fit into the selected area.
Turns out, all I had to do was to select the entire open line, then hit paste. Thanks Gina for the tip.
If anyone is interested, the finished text file from the two Excel files can be viewed at http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/allegheny/military/military-index.txt
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> Make a backup of your original Master and original New file.
>
> Open the New file and make sure the columns are in the same order as the Master.
> You can insert a column by right-clicking on the column to the RIGHT of where
> you want the new one.
>
> Open the Master and add any columns that you don't already have. Then scroll
> down to the first blank line.
>
> Go back to the New file. Hold down Ctrl and tap the End key. This will take you
> to the last used cell in the spreadsheet. Click and drag all the way up to the
> top left cell of the sheet.
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> Copy and paste this onto the first blank line in your Master.
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> Gina Heffernan
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> Hi Everyone,
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> I have a question about Microsoft Excel, and hope someone can help.
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> I have an ongoing project for Allegheny County where members of the mailing
> list are indexing names from the local newspapers, such as deaths, marriages,
> and divorces, into indexes using Excel database. The files are then mailed to
> me, I convert them to text, and post them to our Archives Page. The project
> recently has expanded to include the names of military service members. An
> initial file was sent, which I posted. But, instead of an updated file being
> sent with new information incorporated, a separate Excel file was sent that
> included the updates for the index.
>
> I can not figure out how to get the new information from the new file, and
> cut and paste it, or merge it, into the original file. Any ideas?
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>
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> Ellis Michaels
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Re: [USGW-HELPPAGES] Microsoft Excel 2003
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Make a backup of your original Master and original New file.
Open the New file and make sure the columns are in the same order as the Master.
You can insert a column by right-clicking on the column to the RIGHT of where
you want the new one.
Open the Master and add any columns that you don't already have. Then scroll
down to the first blank line.
Go back to the New file. Hold down Ctrl and tap the End key. This will take you
to the last used cell in the spreadsheet. Click and drag all the way up to the
top left cell of the sheet.
Copy and paste this onto the first blank line in your Master.
Gina Heffernan
Rusk Co, Texas
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Subject: [USGW-HELPPAGES] Microsoft Excel 2003
Hi Everyone,
I have a question about Microsoft Excel, and hope someone can help.
I have an ongoing project for Allegheny County where members of the mailing
list are indexing names from the local newspapers, such as deaths, marriages,
and divorces, into indexes using Excel database. The files are then mailed to
me, I convert them to text, and post them to our Archives Page. The project
recently has expanded to include the names of military service members. An
initial file was sent, which I posted. But, instead of an updated file being
sent with new information incorporated, a separate Excel file was sent that
included the updates for the index.
I can not figure out how to get the new information from the new file, and
cut and paste it, or merge it, into the original file. Any ideas?
Ellis Michaels
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Dear Ellis,
Another approach is to concatenate the data in the two files externally.
Save both of the files to be concatenated in comma delimited text format
(*.csv) , then, using a word processor like WordPad (part of your Windows
operating system) open both files in separate instances of WordPad, select
all of the information in one of the files, copy it to the clipboard, and
then paste it to the bottom of the other file, finally save that file in
text format under a new filename with the *.csv extension.
As long as both files contain the same number of fields within each
record and they are of the same format (text vs. numeric) they will be
compatible. Now import the new *.csv file back into your Excel as a new
project and the files should now be concatenated. You can then sort and
order in any fashion that you desire.
Sincerely yours,
Wayne Johnson note from Jo ann do you use Word Pad? Works real well
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