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“MECCA OF HEALTH AND HUNTING”

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Hot and Cold Water Private Baths Dining Room

R. WILKINSON, Owner

Minto City B.C.

B.R. MEATS

General Merchants

Headquarters for Hunting

And Prospectors’ Supplies

Minto City B.C.

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Freighting through the Fraser Canyon above Yale during the gold rush

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gun and ordering him off the place. The trio rode off and the rancher never saw them again, although he heard of Boone Helm being hanged in 1864. And curiously enough, al- though he made enquiries about the woman, he never set eyes on her again.

So much for southern Oregon.

Next the Kentucky gun man ap- peared in the Salmon River district of Idaho. Rich mineral strikes in 1860 had attracted a few treasure-seekers, and Florence, Idaho, had developed into another booming western mining camp. Perched high in the mountains, it was (and possibly still is) the loftiest community in the United States, being over 11,000 feet above sea level. Be- hind it, another mountain spur towers an additional two thousand feet.

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Leader of a Gang of Thugs

It was in the spring of 1862 that Boone Helm appeared in Florence and he soon gravitated to the leader- ship of a gang of desperadoes who flourished on the fringe of the com- munity.

Enmity sprang up between Helm and a local gambler named Dutch Fred. One day Helm walked into a saloon where the gambler was playing poker. As he stood at the bar toying with his drink, Helm in the manner typical of his kind in that era, taunted the gambler behind his back, hoping Dutch Fred would make a move for his gun—which would be the cue for Helm to shoot him before he could get up.

However, the gambler put his hands in the air, stood up and turning around walked slowly over to Helm, who, at the first move, had his gun out. Ignoring the weapon in the out- law’s hand, the gambler stood a foot or two away from the threatening muzzle, his chest the obvious target.

“Tf you're figuring on shooting me,”

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get out.”

The two men, one armed, the other eyed each other for seconds. Then Helm’s face broke into a half crooked unwilling smile.

The bar tender, who had _ been watching the pair with some anxiety,

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