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The Cheyenne Country, at the time of this story, was south of the Pawnees, along the Taos Trail. All Plains Indians move about a great deal, so that you will not always hear of them in the same neighborhood. You can read how the Cheyennes were saved from the Hoh by a dog, in a book by George Bird Grinnell, called the Fighting Cheyennes.
"Well, Aunt Jane said so. Didn't you, Aunt Jane?" Whereat every one laughed, including the gentle Aunt Jane. And Jimmy got his second piece of pie. After the company had found itself, Uncle Frank, Cheyenne, and Bartley forgathered out on the veranda and talked about the missing horses. Little Jim sat silently on the steps, hoping that the talk would swing round to where he could have his say.
"It's on me to-day," he continued, shoving whiskey along the bar; and I saw he was a little drunk. "I'm setting 'em up," he continued. "Why? Why, because" he looked around for appreciation "because it's not every son-of-a-gun in Wyoming gets pardoned by Governor Barker. I'm important, I want you to understand," he pursued to the cold bystanders. "They'll have a picture of me in the Cheyenne paper.
Alice Worthington's lip curled in scorn. "Why did you not search the roads to Cheyenne? Why did you not send detectives over to Bay Ridge? Why did you not reveal your secret find to the chief of police?" Suddenly Ferris saw the jaws of the trap closing upon him. "He has been murdered!" sobbed Alice. "The money may have been hidden, the bank-book destroyed."
I have missed him so much, and since the day he rode away to Cheyenne not one word to explain his absence has come back to me. You cannot understand what this means, how much he has become to me through years of kindness." "You have heard nothing?" "Not a word." Brant drew a long, deep breath. He had supposed she knew this.
There were oats, hay and skilful trainers in the cavalry barracks at Fort Ryan. There were none of these things at Kyle's ranch on the Big Cheyenne; hence, after much debate, Red Rover was transferred, without profit or loss, to Captain Wayne and was thenceforth the central figure and chiefest hope of the Fort Ryan stables.
They are distinctly different, but each seems more exquisite than the other, and their fragrance fills the room. In fact it is so overpowering that when at night I close the door opening into the grove, I shut the vase and its contents outside. This grand flower is the glory of the mesa or table-land at the foot of this range of the Rocky Mountains the Cheyenne Range.
But this was only Number Six, in the twelve recorded deeds of Four Bears. His next-biggest deed was as follows, and it is bigger, according to white man's way of thinking. By that deed he won his knife. Early one morning one hundred and fifty Cheyenne warriors attacked the Mandan town. They took a scalp and many horses before they rode away.
There were hours at a stretch, when the going was level, when Cheyenne did nothing but roll his gun, throw down on different objects, toss up his gun, and catch it by the handle; and once he startled Bartley by making a quick fall from the saddle and shooting from the ground.
Cheyenne vanished like "the magic mountain of a dream," blue skies were forgotten, the babbling brook unheard, every sense was instantly alert to see that extraordinary bird, "Like a poet hidden, Singing songs unbidden." But he did not appear.
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