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Their meeting was friendly and courteous; and they discussed, sociably, their respective fortunes since they separated on the banks of the Bighorn. Wyeth announced his intention of establishing a small trading post at the mouth of the Portneuf, and leaving a few men there, with a quantity of goods, to trade with the neighboring Indians.
"Darnationed likely squaw!" remarked one. "Who air she, old timber-toes?" inquired he, addressing himself to the guide. "Squaw Utah gal," replied the Mexican in his trapper patois. Pointing to me, he continued: "She sister to hunter-chief she hunter too kill bighorn, buffalo, deer. Carrambo! si! She grand cazadora!" "Oh! durn yer kezedora.
The country of the Atna Indians on the upper Fraser abounded in elk, wapiti, reindeer, bighorn sheep, mountain goats, and beaver. Here is a description by Fraser of some of the rapids in the upper part of the river named after him.
By the Crooked Horn," he indicated a peak like a buffalo horn, and a sag in the crest below it. "Then that," said Bighorn, dropping with one bound from his aerial lookout, "should be my story, for my people made that trail, and it was long before any other trod in it." "It was of that first treading that the Skin talked," agreed the Coyote.
The prong-horn rarely comes within reach of its spring; but it is the dreaded enemy of bighorn, white goat, and every kind of deer, while it also preys on all the smaller beasts, such as foxes, coons, rabbits, beavers, and even gophers, rats, and mice. It sometimes makes a thorny meal of the porcupine, and if sufficiently hungry attacks and eats its smaller cousin the lynx.
His brute mind had all at once added two and two together, and while perhaps he did not make four of it, his mental arithmetic was accurate enough to convince him that straight north was the road to travel. By the time Langdon and Bruce had reached the summit of the Bighorn Highway, and were listening to the distant tongueing of the dogs, little Muskwa was in abject despair.
The young men leaped from their horses, flung down their heavy buffalo robes, and ran at full speed toward the foot of the nearest mountain. Reynal also broke away at a gallop in the same direction, "Come on! come on!" he called to us. "Do you see that band of bighorn up yonder? If there's one of them, there's a hundred!"
As they continued to ascend the Missouri they found themselves confronted by many considerable rapids which sometimes delayed their progress. They also set forth this observation: "The only animals we have observed are the elk, the bighorn, and the hare common to this country." Wayfarers across the plains now call this hare the jack-rabbit.
But Bighorn's greatest enemy, and one he fears most, is the same one so many others have sad cause to fear the hunter with his terrible gun. The terrible gun can kill where man himself cannot climb, and Bighorn has been persistently hunted for his head and wonderful horns. "Some people believe that Bighorn leaps from cliffs and alights on those great horns, but this not true.
This is as true to-day in the far west as it was formerly in Kentucky and Tennessee; at least to judge by my own experience in the Little Missouri region, and in portions of the Kootenai, Coeur d'Alene, and Bighorn countries. McAfee MSS. See also "Trans-Alleghany Pioneers," p. III. As Mr.
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