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diff --git a/42235-h/42235-h.htm b/42235-h/42235-h.htm index f97d4dc..1ff2615 100644 --- a/42235-h/42235-h.htm +++ b/42235-h/42235-h.htm @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> - <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" /> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" /> <title> The Project Gutenberg eBook of Rising Wolf The White Blackfoot, by James Willard Schultz. @@ -91,48 +91,7 @@ table { </head> <body> - - -<pre> - -Project Gutenberg's Rising Wolf the White Blackfoot, by James Willard Schultz - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with -almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: Rising Wolf the White Blackfoot - Hugh Monroe's Story of his First Year on the Plains - -Author: James Willard Schultz - -Illustrator: Frank E. Schoonover - -Release Date: March 1, 2013 [EBook #42235] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK RISING WOLF THE WHITE BLACKFOOT *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Bergquist, Paul Clark and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) - - - - - - -</pre> - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 42235 ***</div> <h1>Rising Wolf<br /> The White Blackfoot</h1> @@ -244,7 +203,7 @@ first experiences upon the Saskatchewan-Missouri River plains is set forth in <i>Rising Wolf</i> just as I had it from him before the lodge fires of the long ago.</p> -<p>At first an <i>engagé</i> of the Hudson's Bay Company, then of the American +<p>At first an <i>engagé</i> of the Hudson's Bay Company, then of the American Fur Company, and finally free trapper, Hugh Monroe saw more "new country" and had more adventures than most of the early men of the West. During the last years of his long life he lived much with his grandson, @@ -292,7 +251,7 @@ You shall have the story. Let us set it forth in order. So! I begin:</p> <p>I was born in Three Rivers Settlement, Province of Quebec, July 9, 1798. My father was Captain Hugh Monroe, of the English Army. My mother was -Amélie de la Roche, daughter of a noble family of French <i>émigrés</i>. Her +Amélie de la Roche, daughter of a noble family of French <i>émigrés</i>. Her father owned a fine mansion in Montreal, and the large estate in Three Rivers, where my father lived with her what time he was not with his regiment on some expedition.</p> @@ -774,7 +733,7 @@ the enemies they captured. As nearly as I could learn, it was between 1680 and 1700 when the Blackfeet began to obtain horses by raids far to the south, even to Old Mexico, and in 1741 or 1742 obtained a few guns from the post on the Assiniboine River founded by the Sieur de la -Vérendrie, that unfortunate explorer who was the first white man to see +Vérendrie, that unfortunate explorer who was the first white man to see the Rocky, or as he named them, the Shining, Mountains. With both guns and horses, the Blackfeet were not long in taking possession of the rich game country to the south of the Slave Lakes, and driving from it not @@ -904,7 +863,7 @@ its length to take the lead. Each family had its place in it, the women and children riding pack and travois horses, the men and youths driving the loose ones. The trappings of the horses, broad leather breast bands and cruppers, blazed with color, beautifully worked designs of -porcupine-quill embroidery. The quaintly shaped <i>parflèches</i>, fringed +porcupine-quill embroidery. The quaintly shaped <i>parflèches</i>, fringed pouches and sacks of rawhide and leather, upon the pack horses were brightly painted. Some horses, generally white ones daubed with red ochre, the sacred color, carried nothing but the pipe and pouches of a @@ -1104,7 +1063,7 @@ narrow, geometric figures distinctively Blackfoot.</p> couches of the occupants, ten in number, a slanting back-rest of willow slats at the head and foot of each one. In the triangular spaces thus left between the couches, and on each side of the doorway, were stored -no end of <i>parflèches</i>, bags, pouches, and leather-wrapped bundles +no end of <i>parflèches</i>, bags, pouches, and leather-wrapped bundles containing the property of the different occupants of the lodge. Besides Lone Walker and myself, there were eight women and nine children, ranging from babies up to boys and girls twelve and fourteen and @@ -1334,7 +1293,7 @@ a change, but it did not dry well. As fast as we got the buffalo meat home, Sis-tsi-ah-ki divided it equally in quality and amount among the wives, and they cut it into very thin sheets, and hung it in the sun, and in about two days' time it dried out, and was then packed for -transportation in <i>parflèches</i>, large rawhide receptacles<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[Pg 65]</a></span> shaped like +transportation in <i>parflèches</i>, large rawhide receptacles<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[Pg 65]</a></span> shaped like an envelope, the flaps laced together.</p> <p>Su-yi-kai-yi-ah-ki was of great help to us in our hunting. We often sent @@ -1666,7 +1625,7 @@ fork of the stream, were more great deposits of ice, old Cold Maker's leavings. But I was not so much interested in them as I was in taking note of the beaver signs, which was a part of my duty on this trip of discovery into the southland. It was the factor's intention to send some -<i>engagés</i> trappers into it if I found enough fur to keep them busy. +<i>engagés</i> trappers into it if I found enough fur to keep them busy. Between this lake and a smaller one lying at the foot of a great ice sheet, I found no less than thirteen dammed ponds, all containing a number of in<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">[Pg 85]</a></span>habited beaver houses; and there were a number of their @@ -1712,7 +1671,7 @@ moccasin tracks. At sight of them the chiefs had all become greatly excited, and talked so fast that I could understand nothing of what they said. I concluded, however, that the tracks had been made by some enemy, and saw by closer examination that the makers of them had worn soft, -leather-soled moccasins, very different from the <i>parflèche</i> or +leather-soled moccasins, very different from the <i>parflèche</i> or semi-rawhide soles of all Blackfoot summer footwear.</p> <p>Looking back on our trail, and seeing a large body of warriors coming to @@ -2732,7 +2691,7 @@ of the Blackfeet<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_148" id="Page_148">[Pg 148]< dogs for beasts of burden, their wanderings had been limited to the forests of the Slave Lakes region, and the edge of the plains of the Saskatchewan. With horses for riding and packing, and, later, a few guns -obtained from the Sieur de la Vérendrie's company, they swept southward +obtained from the Sieur de la Vérendrie's company, they swept southward and conquered a vast domain and became the terror of all surrounding tribes. The Blackfeet named the horse, po-no-ka-mi-ta (elk-dog), because, like the dog, it carried burdens, and was of large size, like @@ -2771,7 +2730,7 @@ muzzles, and long knives. From the camp of the Earth House People they went west, returned soon, and went back north, whence they had come. None of our tribes saw them."</p> -<p>I said to myself: "The Sieur de la Vérendrie's party must have put up +<p>I said to myself: "The Sieur de la Vérendrie's party must have put up this monument, and yonder Belt Mountains must be those that they named the Shining Mountains!"</p> @@ -2794,7 +2753,7 @@ do that, and war parties of other tribes, traveling through the country and coming upon a deserted medicine lodge, gave it a wide berth; they feared the power of the shining god for whom it had been built. I remember that the Kai-na tribe of the Blackfeet once came upon three -free trappers (or were they the American Company's <i>engagés</i>—I forget) +free trappers (or were they the American Company's <i>engagés</i>—I forget) robbing a medicine lodge, and killed them all!</p> <p>I come now to a part of my story that is not<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_152" id="Page_152">[Pg 152]</a></span> so very happy. On the @@ -3320,7 +3279,7 @@ flight of the Crows. We went down to the camp and examined it, and learned by raking out the fireplaces that it had been abandoned the previous evening. In the hurry of their going, they had left about all of their heavy property, all of their lodge pole sets, many lodges -complete, and no end of <i>parflèches</i> and pack pouches filled<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_183" id="Page_183">[Pg 183]</a></span> with dried +complete, and no end of <i>parflèches</i> and pack pouches filled<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_183" id="Page_183">[Pg 183]</a></span> with dried meat and tongues, pemmican, and dried berries. There was also much other stuff scattered about: rolls of leather; tanned and partly tanned buffalo robes for winter use; moccasins, used, and new, and beautifully @@ -3800,7 +3759,7 @@ should last.</p> afternoon of the following day, and when it ceased the weather remained piercingly cold. When the sun came out I took up my gun and went for a walk, and going through the timber looked out upon a great river, the -Sieur de la Vérendrie's <i>La Roche Jaune</i>, (the Yellowstone). He had seen +Sieur de la Vérendrie's <i>La Roche Jaune</i>, (the Yellowstone). He had seen it, where it merged with the Missouri, in 1744, and upon his return to Montreal told of the mighty flow of its waters from the snows of the Shining Mountains. How many times I had heard my grandfather and others @@ -3810,7 +3769,7 @@ with furs. The very name of the river suggested riches; rich mines of gold and silver! And here I was, actually upon the shore of this great river of the West, looking out upon its frozen stretches, and in quest of neither furs nor gold, but of peace between two warring tribes! I -said to myself that the Sieur de la Vérendrie and his men, and Lewis and +said to myself that the Sieur de la Vérendrie and his men, and Lewis and Clark and their men had<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_212" id="Page_212">[Pg 212]</a></span> seen the mouth of the river, but that mine was the honor of first seeing its upper reaches, and oh, how proud of that I was! I did not learn until long afterward that upon their return journey @@ -4489,7 +4448,7 @@ up to the main range, and thence north to the post.</p> <p>With the Mountain Crows, then, we crossed the Missouri at a place later named by the whites, Cow Island, the place where, in 1877,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_251" id="Page_251">[Pg 251]</a></span> the Nez -Percés made one of their last stands. From there we followed up the +Percés made one of their last stands. From there we followed up the Stahk-tsi-kye-e-tuk-tai (River-in-the-Middle), which heads in the low gap dividing the Bear Paw and the Wolf Mountains, and thence went down to Little, or, as the whites say, Milk River. And here again I was in @@ -4515,7 +4474,7 @@ grasping my hand as I slid from my horse. "Well, well! Tell me quick! Did you get to the Missouri plains—and saw you any traders there?"</p> <p>"I have been far beyond the Missouri! Away south of it to Elk River, the -Sieur de la Vérendrie's <i>La Roche Jaune</i>, you know, and seen not one +Sieur de la Vérendrie's <i>La Roche Jaune</i>, you know, and seen not one trader!" I answered. But I could not wait for him to ask questions. I poured out my tale of the vast country I had seen, its wealth of furs, our trouble with the Crows, and how we had made peace with them and they @@ -4570,384 +4529,6 @@ U . S . 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