George W. had one crowning virtue that gave him the respect of all his associates, although some of the boy> treated him lightly. He was loyal and indulgent to his mothers and sisters. The mother was one who aspired for a more aristocratic life than their humble circumstances would permit, and had a considerable degree of intellectual attainment, and Grace and Bessie shared in the ambition. George W. would impoverish himself to secure for them all the comfort possible on the old place on Pumpkin creek.

When he started with Braziel on this trip.

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he was not clad in an overplus of garment. In fact, by the time they had reached Big Horn Basin, George was very nearly "out of pants."

In one of the tall cottonwoods along the river bank, high up in the branches, the Mexican discovered the burial place of a Cheyenne Indian. He threw his rope up and got hold of the limb and shook the corpse to the ground. He then unrolled the body and took therefrom a fine pair of elkskin trousers. With them he returned to camp and sold them to Sunderling for ten dollars on time. It was sometime later, before George W. learned of the place where he had secured them, but as he really needed them, and had experienced no ill effects from their use, he continued to wear them. They were of excellent material for they lasted him three or four years.

The last heard of George Sunderling he was sheep inspector for the state of Montana, and wore a Prince Albert coat with a top hat. His brother Lee, or better known as "Spud," was also in Montana.