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His mount, a compact cayuse from west of the Rockies, bore no saddle beyond a folded blanket cinched on with a rawhide band. For weapons Bridger carried no firearms at all, but bore a short buffalo bow of the Pawnees double-curved, sinew-backed, made of the resilient bois d'arc, beloved bow wood of all the Plains tribes.
The day was fair, and we came up with them very easily. I had a quiver full of arrows, with a sinew-backed bow. "My pony carried me in far ahead of all the others. I found myself in the midst of the bulls first, for they are slow. They threw toward me vicious glances, so I hastened my pony on to the cows.
There was a parley, while the oaths became a jumble of protests, haranguing, and threats. Presently Standing Buffalo could be heard above the rest. "They are only women. Let us take them and be on!" At this, all started forward, but warily. As sudden as before, they stopped. Against the light, for a second time, a ragged arm had shot up. Now at its top was a sinew-backed bow.
In spare moments, he made himself a sinew-backed bow, and practised many hours with it. He spent no time in the lean-to his guard there had ceased. The necessity for food did not take him to the shack his arrows brought down game which he cooked. At any time, with a sharp stick, he could root up his fill of wild turnips.
The old chief had his tried charger equipped with a soft, pillow-like Indian saddle and a lariat. His old sinew-backed hickory bow was examined and strung, and a fine straight arrow with a steel head carefully selected for the test. He adjusted a keen butcher knife over his leather belt, which held a warm buffalo robe securely about his body.
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