The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-07-04

winter his tribe went on buffalo hunt.
Bears Ears and his foe were both in
the party. They went a long distance
from home. The main party resolved
to camp away from the village. Bears
Ears determined to return to it. Un-
known to him his enemy made the same
resolution, and being better mounted
overlook him on the way. He was trav-
cling in a narrow path, when suddenly
he recognized the voice of his enemy
calling to him to get out of the way.
1t was adding insult to injury. He
turned aside as the other attempted
to pass by, raised his gun and shot him
dead. Cutting out the dead mans
/ heart, he himself mounted the vacant
saddle and rode to his lodge. Telling
his mother to pack up what things she
wanted, he busted himself in preparing
q vengefuI meal. He cut open his enc
my's heart, broiled it, and a4e it. He
| had hungered for this meal for many
days. The two fingers he had given to
| the gods were cheap in comparison with
| the reward they had secured. Before
| daylight he was a refugee on his way to
the Sioux camp. He was received as a
| friend and ally, and for eight years was
foe to his own household. During
| this time it was that he camped and
huntel in the Indians paradise, the
| Black Hills. Once more reinstated in
| his own tribe, he has with many of them
enlisted as the scout of the Long haired
/ Chiefs the Indians call Gen. Custer,
and has promised faithfully to lead him
to his old haunts.
Taking little stick in his hands,
| Bears Ears, when he had learned what
came for, sat down and made map on
the sand. Carefully tracing out the
streams and rivers, he placed his finger
on the Big Cheyenne and its fork, the
| Belle Fourcie. "This," said he, is
the only way to the Black Hills. 1t is
walled around on every side; here only
is the gateway. Within this wall there
is a4large sd fertile park. Tie 81
! Missouri river heads in close to the
Black Hills, but there is no bad land,
such as vexed the Yellowstone expedl-
ton, to be encountered. The bluffs on
| the streams, however. are very high,
and may give some difficulty to wagons.
The country is heavily wooded. Ash,
oak and pine are found in addition to
cottonwood, which abounds on the Chey-
enne. Game is plentiful, especially elk,
black and Whitehall deer. Bears are nu-
merous. Trout abound in the streams. y
| The animal most feared by the Indians
is the panther, of which Bears Ears
claims there are four kinds. The In
dams know very little about minerals,
but say there is iron there. There is 6
story that on one occasion a squaW
brought large piece of gold from the
hills to one of the agencies.
This region may be said to be the In
dams fable land. 1t is invested with
legends and superstitions. 90 Some
where near the CENTRE" says Bear
Ears, "there is a great nest, like the
nest of the eagle this is the nest of the
thunder" This spot even the Indians
themselves do not visit because of fear
Perhaps the invincible Indians thai
Bears Ears saw there had something t.
do with it. "These Indians" said he
"you cannot kill they will stand 81
close to a gun that the powder burns
them, yet the ball will not hurt them.
"ShalI we meet these Indians?"
asked.
EYES," said the guide, "they Low,
that land, and why should they no
fight for it ?"
| We shall see whether thew will