[98]Frederick Bottler discovered a trapper’s cabin at the head of Antelope Creek in 1878. The advanced decay of its timbers indicated that it was forty or fifty years old. See P. W. Norris, _Annual Report 1880_, p. 606. [99]_Niles Weekly Register_, Third Series, IX, 6 (Oct. 6, 1827), p. 90. Also, _Yellowstone Nature Notes_, XXI, 5 (Sept.-Oct., 1947), p. 52. Sweet Lake is now known as Bear Lake, Idaho. [100]P. W. Norris, _Annual Report 1878_, p. 987. Smith was killed by a band of Comanches in 1831, when leading a caravan across the Cimarron Desert toward Santa Fe. [101]Meek’s experience was published by Mrs. Frances Fuller Victor in _The River of the West_ (Hartford, Conn.: Columbian Book Co., 1871), pp. 75-7. [102]Warren A. Ferris, _Life in the Rocky Mountains 1830-35_ (Salt Lake City: Rocky Mountain Book Shop, 1940), pp. 204-6. [103]Osborne Russell, _Journal of a Trapper, 1834-1843_ (Boise, Idaho: Syms-York Co., 1921), p. 32. [104]Helen F. Sanders, _op. cit._, p. 657. Mr. Ducharme, Joe Power, L’Humphrie, Louis Anderson, and Jim and John Baker were members of this group. Remains of horses have been found on this battleground. [105]J. Cecil Alter, _James Bridger_, p. 107. [106]Walter W. DeLacy, “A Trip Up the South Fork of Snake River,” _Contributions_, Historical Society of Montana, I, 132. [107]James Stuart, “The Yellowstone Expedition of 1863,” _Ibid._, I, 191. Montana mineral production vaulted to $18,000,000 by 1865. Thereafter a gradual decline began, but a strong revival came in the eighties when deep mining of silver and copper ore bodies proved profitable. The combined mineral output in 1889 was $41,000,000. [108]P. Koch, “The Discovery of Yellowstone National Park,” _Magazine of American History_, II, 511. [109]E. S. Topping, _Chronicles of the Yellowstone_ (St. Paul: Pioneer Press Co., 1888), p. 44. [110]P. W. Norris, _Annual Report 1880_, p. 7. Miller Creek was named for Adam Miller’s retreat in this instance. [111]Grace R. Hebard and E. A. Brininstool, _The Bozeman Trail_ (Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1922), II, 229. [112]Robert Vaughn, _Then and Now_, p. 165. [113]Hebard and Brininstool, _op. cit._, II, 229. [114]_Ibid._, p. 230. [115]_Ibid._, p. 244. [116]Anonymous. The quotations used in the Bridger stories represent the author’s organization of existing folk lore. Some of these stories and others are given in H. M. Chittenden’s _Yellowstone National Park_. [117]John G. White, “Souvenir,” I, 134. [118]Hiram M. Chittenden, _op. cit._, pp. 39-40. [119]Hebard and Brininstool, _op. cit._, II, p. 243.