At Carroll, Montana, they found a steamboat, on which they took passage to Bismarck, from which point Aaron and his party came through with ox teams to the Black Hills, arriving in Deadwood in October, 1876, and having managed to avoid attack from the Indians while en route. He passed a month in mining in Deadwood Gulch and then joined the stampede to Wolf Mountain, but the prospects there turned out a failure and he returned in a few weeks to Deadwood.