There was the day we went over the Cutbank Pass, with instructions to hold our horses' manes so that our saddles would not slip back.
I remember one place along the Cutbank Trail where the first horses found themselves above the belly in water and confronting a perpendicular bank up which one or two scrambled as best they could.
Once the bulk of the cattle were safely over, with no danger of congestion on the farther bank, they were allowed to loiter along under the cutbank and drink to their hearts' content.
By this time the lead cattle were adrift, and half a dozen of us were on their lower side, for the footing under the cutbank was narrow, and should the cattle become congested on landing, some were likely to drown.
There were nights when he shivered over a pine-knot fire in the shelter of a cutbank with the temperature fifteen degrees below zero.
We took shelter from the hail under a cutbank where the cañon widens.
Looking ahead then I saw that we were close to the edge of a high cutbank at the edge of the river, saw Red Crow leap his horse from it and go out of sight; a couple more jumps of our horses and we, too, would clear it.
The Blackfoot name was given it for the reason that some women, when digging red paint in the foot of a high cutbank bordering the stream, had been killed by a heavy fall of the earth.
It was the Pu-nak-ik-si, or Cutbank River, so named on account of the rock walls on both sides of the lower part of its valley.
Cinnabar followed her gaze and both watched a horseman who, from the shelter of a cutbank seemed to be submitting the larger valley to a most careful scrutiny.
Shines like a lookin' glass," he observed, and throwing the gun to his shoulder, sighted at a rounded rock that protruded from a cutbank a quarter of a mile away.
A cutbank presented a steep perpendicular surface against which he might take his stand with the knowledge that they could not attack him from the rear.
One instant he was aware that the cattle in front of him and beside him were disappearing; the next, he himself was plunging over a cutbank into the Little Missouri.
On the farther side of the river is the cutbankover which the cattle rushed in the dark.
One of the most impressive views is from the summit of the trail from Upper Two Medicine Lake to Cutbank River.
If none come within four days' time, I shall go over to the Cutbank ponds and learn what the trouble is.
On another day we went over Cutbank Pass and down the west side of the range, far enough to get a good view of the Pumpelly Glacier, and see the huge ice blocks break from it and drop from a cliff more than two thousand feet in height.
Last night, in Black Bull's lodge, we had more tales of the long ago in this Cutbank Valley.
Down came our lodges this morning, and to-night we are camped in Cutbank Canyon, just below the great beaver ponds some six or seven miles from the head of the stream.
It was decided that this should be done, and one morning more than forty young males started for Cutbank River.
For a wonder, the topographers have not taken away the original name for the outer mountain on the north side of this Cutbank Valley: we find on the map that it is still White Calf Mountain.
A more popular means of approach is on horseback, over Cutbank Pass from Two Medicine or over Triple Divide Pass from Red Eagle.
Improved highways lead from the Blackfeet Highway to Two Medicine Lake, the Cutbank Chalets, and Many Glacier Hotel on Swiftcurrent Lake.
RED EAGLE Red Eagle Lake in Red Eagle Valley is reached by trail only from Cutbank over Triple Divide Pass or from St. Mary Chalets or Sun Camp via the Many Falls Trail.
Cutbank Pass over the Continental Divide was crossed by | A.
A spur lane, leaving the highway at Cutbank Bridge, 4 miles north of the Browning Wye, brings the autoist to this terminus.
The only sound that we could hear at all was the murmur of the river close under the cutbank on our left.
We were perhaps a hundred yards from the foot of the bluff, and on our right, about the same distance off, was the cutbank of the river.
Billy swept the background of the cutbank man with his glasses.
For cottonwoods grew above the cutbank and the man lay in deep shadow.
He was aiming a rifle at another man ensconced below a cutbank bordering a small creek that meandered with many windings across the rolling country.
Behind the gap in the cottonwoods, fifty yards below the spot under the cutbankwhere Slike had lain, they found the body of the man with his face in the water.
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