. The Pacific tourist . lican, Solomon, and Arkansas Val-leys, and where a few years since, travelers couldsee countless thousands of them from the carwindows and platforms, on either the UnionPacific, Kansas Pacific or Atchison, Topeka &Santa Fe Railroads, they now, probably will seebut few, if any. Their hides have been shippedEast, where they make a poor quality of only which are taken late in the fall andduring the winter months of January and Febru-ary, are fit for robes. The hair at this season ofthe year, is thick and firmly set. About the time this killing process began i
. The Pacific tourist . lican, Solomon, and Arkansas Val-leys, and where a few years since, travelers couldsee countless thousands of them from the carwindows and platforms, on either the UnionPacific, Kansas Pacific or Atchison, Topeka &Santa Fe Railroads, they now, probably will seebut few, if any. Their hides have been shippedEast, where they make a poor quality of only which are taken late in the fall andduring the winter months of January and Febru-ary, are fit for robes. The hair at this season ofthe year, is thick and firmly set. About the time this killing process began in1870, Mr. Clother entered upon the work of tan-ning robes, employing for this purpose the squawsof the Pawnee and Omaha tribes. The Pawneereservation was only a short distance from Co-lumbus, and the Bucks were glad of theopportunity of employment for their is beneath their dignity, and they despise this, tanning robes is hard and slow work,and in their opinion, just fit for squaws. For a 27. few years the squaws of both of the tribes named,have been engaged by Mr. Clother, but the de-parture of the Pawnees to their reservation inthe Indian Territory, precluded the possibility oftheir employment, and hence in the winter of1876, the Omahas seem to have a monopoly of thework, though there is not as much to do as for-merly. We visited their camp to inspect the pre 11 -ess of making robes. It was located in a bodyof heavy timber, with a thick growth of under-brash, on the narrow point of land where theLoup Fork and Platte Rivers form their low bushes made a perfect wind-break, andin the midst of the tall trees their Sibley tentswere pitched. The barking of numerous dogsgreeted our approach, and after making a fewinquiries of one or two who could talk broken English, we crawled into the tent occupied bythe Bucks, whom we found intensely interestedin gambling—playing a game with cards called 21. In this tent were nine Bucks and onesquaw; three
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