DRAGS BROKEN LEG 13 MILES
Emmett Index, Nov. 10, 1921:
Frank Spencer, Aged Trapper, Picked Up by Hunters.
Tortured by pain and dragging his broken leg over the rugged slopes, Frank Spencer, aoldtimern and aged trapper in the Payette national forest, half crawled, half hobbled four whole days from a peak near the head of Goat creek, a tributary of the Salmon, a distance of 13 miles in the direction of Knox before be was picked up exhausted, by a party of hunters Saturday noon.
Temporary treatment at Knox and Cascade was given the injured man and he was brought through Emmett on Monday's train by Forest Ranger Horace Burr and taken to a Boise hospital for treatment.
The accident which befell Mr. Spencer occurred Tuesday of last week near the headwaters of Goat creek. While setting a trap for marten his foot slipped from a rock on which he was standing and one of the bones in his leg just above the ankle of his right leg was broken. In attempting to walk he slipped and fell again and this time the other bone snapped in two. Miles from nearest neighbors, he decided to try and reach Knox. Improvising crutches from limbs of a tree he started out on his arduous journey. The ruggedness of the country, however, made his crutches almost useless, end be was forced to crawl the greater part of the distance, which included the summit of a high mountain. He had only six biscuits to appease his hunger and sustain his powers of endurance during the four days he was traveling. About noon Saturday be was found by hunters and carried to Knox. Last reports are that he is improving and has a chance to recover.
Spencer is 72 years old. He has been resident of Idaho 30 odd years and since 1915 has trapped in the Payette forest. He participated in the fight when Indians raided the Deadwood and Bear valley sections in 1970.
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