. The white Indian boy : the story of Uncle Nick among the Shoshones. Pioneer Days 7 But it was a starving winter anyway, in spite of all wecould do. We were a thousand miles from civilization,surrounded by hostile Indians. We had very little toeat and next to nothing to wear. It was a time of hungerand hardships; but most of the people managed to livethrough it, and things grew brighter with the He went bucking through the CHAPTER TWO MY LITTLE INDIAN BROTHER A FEW tame Indians hung around the settlements beggingtheir living. The people had a saying, It is cheaper tofeed
. The white Indian boy : the story of Uncle Nick among the Shoshones. Pioneer Days 7 But it was a starving winter anyway, in spite of all wecould do. We were a thousand miles from civilization,surrounded by hostile Indians. We had very little toeat and next to nothing to wear. It was a time of hungerand hardships; but most of the people managed to livethrough it, and things grew brighter with the He went bucking through the CHAPTER TWO MY LITTLE INDIAN BROTHER A FEW tame Indians hung around the settlements beggingtheir living. The people had a saying, It is cheaper tofeed them than to fight them, so they gave them whatthey could; but the leaders thought it would be betterto put them to work to earn their living; so some of thewhites hired the Indians. My father made a bargainwith old Tosenamp (White-foot) to help him. TheIndian had a squaw and one papoose, a boy about myage. They called him Pantsi5k. At that time my father owned a small herd of sheep,and he wanted to move out on his farm, two miles fromthe settlement, so he could take better care of Tosenamp thought it would be safe to do so, as mostof the Indians there were becoming friendly, and thewild Indians were so feir away that it was thought theywould not bother us; so we moved out on the farm. Father put the Indian boy and me to herding the had no other boy to play with. Pantsuk and I bec
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