The pursued : a tale of the Yellowstone . lone can tell stories,and they will not hear the stories of the significant these stories may be is shown in MissEmersons Indian Myths, where some of the legendstold herein appear in other garb. The Pursued takes us amongst the wildest of theworlds wonderlands. Those who think I have runwild in what I have written of it, may change theiropinion after reading Professor Haydens Reports ofthe Field Work of the Survey in the Yellowstone. W. J. G. r CONTENTS. CHAP. PAGE I. THE NIGHT OF THE EQUINOX, . .11 II. THE AVOnSHIP OF THE MOllNING STAR, . ,
The pursued : a tale of the Yellowstone . lone can tell stories,and they will not hear the stories of the significant these stories may be is shown in MissEmersons Indian Myths, where some of the legendstold herein appear in other garb. The Pursued takes us amongst the wildest of theworlds wonderlands. Those who think I have runwild in what I have written of it, may change theiropinion after reading Professor Haydens Reports ofthe Field Work of the Survey in the Yellowstone. W. J. G. r CONTENTS. CHAP. PAGE I. THE NIGHT OF THE EQUINOX, . .11 II. THE AVOnSHIP OF THE MOllNING STAR, . , 22 III. A HERO AND A TRAITOR, . . .32 IV. AN UNPLEASANT EXPERIENCE, . .44 V. THE CAMP IN HOODOOLAND, . .52 VI. SEQUOYAH, ...... 65 VII. A DAY IN WONDERLAND, . . .77 VIII. THE LEGEND OF THE. WHITE CANOES, . 88 IX. FIREHOLE VALLEY, . . .98 X. THE MYSTERY AND ITS MEANING, . , . 113 9 Digitized by the Internet, Archive in 2013 THE PURSUED. CHAPTEE I. THE NIGHT OF THE HERE was excitementin the Pawnee vil-lage, — suppressedbut was deep-ening into darkness,and the Indianswere as busy as ifit were broad was a con-fused murmur in thekeen March air of muchwhispering and moving toand fro; and above themurmur, or rather mingling with it, and rising throughit by fits and starts, came the lazy ripple of the shallow 12 THE PURSUED. Loup on its way to the -wide stream wlncli is iioav calledthe Platte, but was then known as tlie Nebraska. All in the village, men and women, boys and girls,seemed to have much to do,—all saAe one, a boy ofanother race, alone in a distant lodge, but carefullyguarded and kept in ignorance of the cause of the(.ommotion. To the lodge of the head chief came Cli-een Oak, one ofthe minor chiefs, inviting the great man to a feast in anhours time. Courtesy required that he should consent;and Green Oak \veiit off roinid the village to request theattendance of the other warriors to who
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