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She cried out at him to "Go go go!" and finally he took up his bundle, saying, as he stepped out slowly: "All right! But I'm coming back, and you'll have to listen to me. I don't mind being called a squaw-man. You're pretty near white, and you're good enough for me. I'll treat you right why, I'll even marry you if you're dead set on it. Sure!"
"He never answered; just looked at me pityfyin', as much as to say, 'Well, you poor, drivelin, old polyp! "One day Denny, the squaw-man, drove up the creek: "'Windy Jim is back with the mail, says he, and we hit for camp on the run. Only fifteen mile, she is, but I was all in when we got there, keepin' up with Justus.
Of all criminals in the unwritten code of mining camps in the early days in the Yukon, the sneak-thief was the most despised. A man might live as he pleased, as a squaw-man, or with several paramours; he might shoot a man down in his tracks, if for honour or self-defense.
In 1882 a mounted Indian was killed in this manner on one of the river bottoms some miles below where my ranch house now stands, not far from the junction of the Beaver and Little Missouri. The bear had been hunted into a thicket by a band of Indians, in whose company my informant, a white squaw-man, with whom I afterward did some trading, was travelling.
She was still wrestling with herself when Gale returned, and he started at the look in her face as she approached him. "Why did you marry my mother?" she asked. "Why? Why did you do it?" He saw that she was in a rage, and answered, bluntly, "I didn't." She shrank at this. "Then why didn't you? Shame! Shame! That makes me worse than I thought I was. Oh, why did you ever turn squaw-man?
They had seen the motions of a gold strike gone through before. This was too patently a scheme of Harper's and Joe Ladue's, trying to entice prospecting in the vicinity of their town site and trading post. And who was Carmack? A squaw-man. And who ever heard of a squaw-man striking anything? And what was Bonanza Creek?
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