. The lure of the Black Hills . JlM FAIRLY STUFFED HIS PET WITH LITTLE BALLS OF BATTER. Page 175. Tr!E PUB!. THE LOST TEPEE 177 the young Indian did not refer to the openplace on which the Benton party was nowcamping. The question as to their new location andthe place of Tankaheetas camp had now be-come a serious problem. Both Hartmann and Brule were in doubtabout the age of the signs the boys had dis-covered. They may be a year old, or they may bethree years old, Brule claimed. I haveseen moose signs which I knew were threeyears old and which a Michigan hunter de-clared were only a year old.
. The lure of the Black Hills . JlM FAIRLY STUFFED HIS PET WITH LITTLE BALLS OF BATTER. Page 175. Tr!E PUB!. THE LOST TEPEE 177 the young Indian did not refer to the openplace on which the Benton party was nowcamping. The question as to their new location andthe place of Tankaheetas camp had now be-come a serious problem. Both Hartmann and Brule were in doubtabout the age of the signs the boys had dis-covered. They may be a year old, or they may bethree years old, Brule claimed. I haveseen moose signs which I knew were threeyears old and which a Michigan hunter de-clared were only a year old. If these signs are more than a year old,they are of no value to us. They wouldsimply mean that some time ago a horse hadpassed this way; which is not at all impos-sible. We all know the tales about Indiansand whites having been in these mountains. On their explorations the men had foundbeaver quite abundant and they felt sure thatthey could make a fairly good catch of fur,but of gold they had not found a trace, al- 178 LUEE OF THE BLACK HILLS though they had hurriedly examined all goodlooking streams. N
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