Carl The Trailer

ing a few vigorous pulls at his pipe to make sure that the tobacco was well started. "When he came back he went among the Arapahoes and Cheyennes, because he had some friends among them, and he w

of those pi?on nuts a

ven't," s

sent some prominent men to investigate for themselves. They were gone all winter, and brought back some queer stories that this man had not told them, because he did not know anything about them. Finally the Sioux got hold of it, and became excited at once. They seemed to think it was what they had so long been waiting for-a summons to go to war and wipe the whites off the face of the earth. They, too, sent out some men, and they brought back so

r laughed loudly

people could be fooled in that way! After a buffalo is

perstition. All his life he has been planning and thinking about getting rid of the whites. We are his evil genius; and if we could be driven out of the country ev

Sioux?" demanded Parker, o

"I guess that was enough to set a more patient people than the Sioux on the warpath. A good many of them starved to death in spite of all the army

you were such an Indian lov

them and their heirs forever. Everything went on smoothly until gold was discovered there, and from that time the trouble began. Custer was sent through that country, not w

way," said Lieutenant Parker. "

ge

ing skins for his tepee, robes to keep him warm in midwinter and sinews for sewing his clothes together. A white man kills them just to make a record. Sometimes he takes their tails

ear, take his land away from him, and destroy the only means he had of making a living. He had never looked at it in this way before. He supposed that the redskins were born w

ge

rl, "they brought with them the news that they had seen the Messiah himself, that they had talked

rker, forgetting, so deeply was he interested in the

e time the grass was green in the spring; but, in order to speed hi

ancers experience. They go on until they are complet

great many people who have witnessed the dance

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ns, in which there is a suspension of certain bodily powers and unusual activity of others. That is as near as I can get at it. And wh

r, and when the time comes for the Indians to take possession of this country, all the whites and tribes who do not believe as they

Bull is to bl

rmy officers can say and do against it. They are very sly; they talk only in their own language, although Page 47 some say that Sitting Bull can sign

r thoughtfully. "I believe that the Ghost Dance is not a

did not act as if there was an Indian within a thousand miles of him. Carl knew all about the plains and those who inhabited them, and when he

we are aware of it," said he. "How do you know

will Page 48 run against some of us while we are away from the camp. This country

his guide to express an opinion on the situation. He did not sh

me," thought Parker, "but I hope that we shall not see an

n the foothills. The sergeant did not halt at that camp, for he wanted a "fresh spot" in which to pass the night. Half a mile farther on he fo

you, sir?" said he, wi

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of the men to clear away the underbrush, the others to take care of the horses and pitch the tents, while he and Carl removed their saddles and seated themselves at the foot of the nea

enough to say that the party was successful beyond its hopes; that one wagon was loaded in two days and sent to the fort under the command of a corporal, that they killed more than one bear, and that the lieutenant fairly shot himself into the good graces Page 50 of Carl,

y were ready to start, Carl, who had been behaving rather strangely of late, keeping his Winchester with him all the while and walking

signs of Indians

d Parker, "and I lo

s. "I saw the print of an Indian's foot by the side of that stream that we were hunting Pag

l me of it?" asked P

away your pleasure. Besides, they were too small a party to attack us, if they had any such thought in mind, and were

silence and rode on without saying a word; but he kept his eyes open, and carefully scanned the top of every swell they passed. Lieutenant Page 52 Parker did likewise, for somehow he could not get over the thought that was uppermost in the mind of the guide "that they would be sure to see more of the Indians before they reached the

e, "and he seems to be more interested

pockets, but when he pulled them out to take up the reins he