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Title: Beyond the old frontier : adventures of Indian-fighters, hunters, and fur-traders
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Grinnell, George Bird, 1849-1938
Subjects: Ross, Alexander, 1783-1856 Ruxton, George Frederick Augustus, 1820-1848 Garrard, Lewis Hector, 1829-1887 Palliser, John, 1807-1887 Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) Indians of North America -- West (U.S.) Fur trade -- West (U.S.)
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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, at the distance kept by the out-siders, the area was one hundred and fifty feet indiameter. There Appolonian emulators chanted thegreat deeds performed by the Cheyenne warriors; asthey ended, the dying strain was caught up by the hun-dreds of the outside circle, who, in fast-swelling, loudtones, poured out the burden of their song. At thisjuncture, the march was quickened, the scalps of theslain were borne aloft and shaken in wild delight, andshrill warnotes, rising above the furious din, accel-erated the pulsation, and strung high the nerves. Time-worn shields, careering in mad holders hands, clashed,and keen lances, once reeking in Pawnee blood, clanged.Braves seized one another with an iron grip, in theheat of excitement, or chimed more tenderly in thechant, enveloped in the same robe with some gentlemaiden as they approvingly stepped through one oftheir own original polkas. Thirty of the chiefs, and principal men were rangedby the pile of blazing logs. By their invitation, I sat
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OH s<u W W ffi A Boy in Indian Camps 259 down near Old Bark, and smoked death and its con-comitant train of evils to those audacious tribes, whodoubt the courage or supremacy of the brave, thegreat, and powerful Cheyenne nation. The pipe was lavishly decorated with beaver strips,beads, and porcupine; the mixture of tobacco andbark, was prepared with unusual care for this, theirgrand gala night. It would be interesting to follow Garrard throughhis life in the Cheyenne camp, but space forbids this.He was called away from this interesting life by thenews which came from the West of the death at thehands of the Pueblos of Governor Charles Bent, inNew Mexico. Fugitives who had escaped the attackhad come to Fort William and told what had hap-pened, and soon after, William Bent, with twenty-threemen, started for the Mexican settlements. They passedfar to the southward of Pikes Peak, met a few UnitedStates soldiers and volunteers, and toward the middleof February were joined by Sublette, w

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