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Title: Thirty-Seven Days of Peril
from Scribner's Monthly Vol III Nov. 1871

Author: Truman Everts

Release Date: January 11, 2010 [EBook #30924]

Language: English

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Produced by Jim Adcock

Thirty-seven Days of Peril.

Mr. T. C. Everts is spoken of frequently in Bishop Tuttle's
contribution. He was commissioned Assessor of Internal Revenue for
Montana in 1861.

A graphic description of Mr. Everts' wanderings, in his own language,
appeared in Scribner's Magazine of November, 1871, as follows:

SCRIBNER'S MONTHLY

VOL. III. November, 1871. No. 1

THIRTY-SEVEN DAYS OF PERIL

[Illustration: Imaginary Companions.]

I have read with great satisfaction the excellent descriptive articles
on the wonders of the Upper Yellowstone, in the May and June
numbers of your magazine. Having myself been one of the party
who participated in many of the pleasures, and suffered all the perils
of that expedition, I can not only bear testimony to the fidelity of
the narrative, but probably add some facts of experience which will
not detract from the general interest it has excited.

A desire to visit the remarkable region, of which, during several
years' residence in Montana, I had often heard the most marvelous
accounts, led me to unite in the expedition of August last. The
general character of the stupendous scenery of the Rocky Mountains
prepared my mind for giving credit to all the strange stories told of
the Yellowstone, and I felt quite as certain of the existence of the
physical phenomena of that country, on the morning that our company
started from Helena, as when I afterwards beheld it. I engaged in the
enterprise with enthusiasm, feeling that all the hardships and
exposures of a month's horseback travel through an unexplored region
would be more than compensated by the grandeur and novelty of the
natural objects with which it was crowded. Of course, the idea of
being lost in it, without any of the ordinary means of subsistence,
and the wandering for days and w