#title Smith floaters find old cache
#author Associated Press
#date June 25, 1987
#source The Independent-Record (Helena, Montana), June 25, 1987, page 10. <[[https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-independent-record/189113042/][www.newspapers.com]]>
#lang en
#pubdate 2026-01-17T05:19:04
#topics Montana, hermits, news stories,

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS (AP) - A party of floaters on the Smith River has found one of the caches left by Scotty Allen, a hermit-like trapper who lived in the Smith River country for more than four decades before his death earlier this year.

Allen's main base was a cabin on Tenderfoot Creek, a tributary of the Smith, but he kept caches of food and clothing all along the river.

Members of the Montana State University cross-country ski team were floating the river when they discovered some parachute string leading to the cache, said Greg Johnson of Bozeman, a member of the party.

Allen's cache included a 1938 Illinois Herb Almanac and a 1942 Jehovah's Witnesses yearbook and four 1938 $1 silver certificates.

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