Twenty years on the trap line : being a collection of revised camp notes written at intervals during a twenty years experience in trapping, wolfing and hunting, on the great Northwestern plains . without any perceptible effect. TheIndians considered their killing almost They claimed that tlu^se same twoturtles w^ere living and known to their grand-fathers. They believed their destructionboded ill to future poople living along thjbanks of these tw^o turtles former liaunts. ;The fall of 1880, another shot from my rifle,if not so far reaching in its eflacts, w^as atleast an odd one.
Twenty years on the trap line : being a collection of revised camp notes written at intervals during a twenty years experience in trapping, wolfing and hunting, on the great Northwestern plains . without any perceptible effect. TheIndians considered their killing almost They claimed that tlu^se same twoturtles w^ere living and known to their grand-fathers. They believed their destructionboded ill to future poople living along thjbanks of these tw^o turtles former liaunts. ;The fall of 1880, another shot from my rifle,if not so far reaching in its eflacts, w^as atleast an odd one. This happened on LookoutPoint, back on the bluffs from my light snow had fallen, and w^iile out hunt;ing spied a fox and shot it. On going to it amutilated $20 bill dropped from ats took its back trail, an d in about half of amile found the place where the fox had pickedit up. The smell of grease on the bill hadattracted the foxs appetite. Ashufllingof thesnow turned up nearly §100 in Ic budbeen lost by a w^agon master of the Fort Agency, two months previous. From the building of the first stockade atthe Rendezvous J the place became a c^.-^iij^^-. Long Soldier, the Trapper chief of tlie h >.itilo Sioux during theexpeditions of Generals Sibley and Sulljinto the Sioux country, in 1863-4. ON THE TRAP LIKE. l51 for Indians of different tribes, while passingalong the river. During the closing days of the hereditarywar l)ptwepn tlie Sioiix and the Tuclians ofFoit lui-tliold. the ^\•ar piutius of the latterfrequently stopped there to rest and dry theirbull boats. When the war was ended, both partiesmade it their passing camping ground.—Among the occassional campers was Long Sol-dier the giant chief of the lower UncpapaSioux. He was a prominent war chief duringthe expeditions of General Sully in said that in the days of his power,he fought to kill soldiers only. With citizens,ti-appers and woodchoppers, he was sat-is
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