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for our guns, they for theirs and then a feirce fight immediately began a man named Markhead and I were Head of our party and overtook two Indians that had remained in the rear of them concealed behind some trees. I approached one and my companion the other. Markhead was not paying sufficient attention to his opponent, who I noticed raise his gun to fire at him I forgot my own danger entirely and neglected my Indian for Markhead's just As this Indian was ready to fire I raised my gun and took aim at him He saw me and endeavored to conceal himself but it was too late, I fired and he fell. The moment I fired I remembered the other Indian I was after, I looked in his direction and saw that he was aiming at my breast, I could not load in time so I commenced dodging about as well as I could, Then he fired the ball grazing my neck and passing through my shoulder. We then drew? off about a mile and encamped for the night. It was very cold as we could not make any fires for fear that the light would attract the Indians. We had no covering but our saddle blankets and I passed a miserable night from the pain in my wound, it having bled freely and the blood having frozen. In the morning we found that the Indians were in the same place, we were not strong enough to attack them so we started for the main camp Bridger took thirty men and went back to where we had left the Indians, but when he got there the stolen animals had gone to th plains so we only recovered the five that they had given us. In a few days we set out on our Spring hunt, trapped the waters of the Snake and the Green rivers, caught a lot of game and then went into Summer quarters on the Green river. Shortly after reaching the rendezvous our equipments