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Updated: July 28, 2025
They had left the reservation a fortnight before under the able leadership of that veteran of many war-trails Black Bear. Their leader, chafing at inaction and sick of the monotony of reservation life, had yielded to the entreaties of a score of restless young men and slipped away at their head, eager for the joys of raiding and plundering.
With her fancy full of war-trails and wampum, Sylvia followed to the river-side, and as they floated back dabbled her stained fingers in the water, comforting their smart with its cool flow till they swept by the landing-place, when she asked, wonderingly "Where are we going now? Have I been so troublesome that I must be taken home?"
Sonorous and picturesque was the language of the old Oregon Indians in telling the first white traders the story of the great alliance. The heart of the Willamette was battle and his hand was blood. When he lifted his arm in war, his enemy's lodge became ashes and his council silence and death. "The war-trails of the Willamette went north and south and east, and there was no grass on them.
At other times, as they lounged in groups, they told stories of their past stories of the mining camps and the cattle ranges, of hunting bear and deer, of war-trails against the Indians, of lawless deeds of violence and the lawful violence by which they were avenged, of brawls in saloons, of shrewd deals in cattle and sheep, of successful quests for the precious metals; stories of brutal wrong and brutal appetite, melancholy love-tales, and memories of nameless heroes masters of men and tamers of horses.
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