The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-04-22

use of his grandfather's sun glass il
lighting the medicine pipe n day
when the fire carried in Lone Walk
er's fire box had gone out. The
Blackfeet regarded the obtaining Of
fire by use of the sun glass with SUI
perstitious awe, and as Monroe had
brought down fire from the sun.
which they worshipped, he vas al
first called by them the Sun Youth,
and was treated with the respect
that would be paid to a chief. This
gave him a standing that he other
wise would never have enjoyed, and
he was presented with 10 fine horses
by Lone Walker.
Reach the Missouri
Down past the junction of Belly
and Old Mans rivers travelled the
Piegans; then on to st. Mary's lake
and to Milk river. Monroe hunted
with the Blackfeet and killed buff
falo and a grizzly bear, and while in
this section the Piegans, 5000
strong, came upon the tracks of their
enemies, the Crows. The latter, in
considerable force, were overtaken
on Cutbank river, and even of them
killed in a skirmish, while the Pie
gans lost but one warrior.
The Piegans then pushed ahead to
Marias river and Badger Creek, and
Monroe had many thrilling exper-
fences while hunting. Here, too, he
saw for the first time the Sun dance
and the religious ceremonies of the
Blackfeet that accompanied it. After
this they proceeded to Sun River,
called by the Blackfeet Point-of-
Rocks river, and down that stream
to it's junction with the Missouri,
where the city of Great Falls stands
now. The day after arriving there,
Monroe saw the Great Falls and the
other cascades. He knew that Lewis
and Clark had been there and was
anxious to learn whether there were
any American Fur Company traders
in that vicinity. The Blackfeet call
ed the Great Falls Rock-Wall-Across-
the-River.
Hugh Monroe was the first white
man, it is believed, after John Golfer,
of Lewis and Clark's expedition, who
ever heard definitely of the wonders
of Yellowstone park. At the Great
Falls the Blackfeet described the
geysers and springs of boiling water
of that land of wonders, of which
they stood in the greatest terror.
The Piegans said they had not seen
any of the white men with the Lew
is and Clark expedition, but they told
Monroe that the Mandans had told
them about the Lewis and Clark eX-
petition. The Blackfeet also denied
that the Indians with whom Lewis
and Clark fought on Marias river
were of their nation. They declared
those Indians must have been a
war party of Crows or some other
passing through the Blackfeet
country. Although Monroe did not
know it, there were then trading
the Yellowstone river for trade from
st. Louis.
Fight on Arrow Creek
From the Great Falls the Piegans
went to the Highwood mountains,
and passing around them moved on
TO Arrow Greek, where in a cave
Monroe found two silver-mounted
Spanish bits with some Grow
and what was more wonder
Jul, he saw there for the first time
4 finely meshed shirt of steel mail
and a rapier, which bore the mark,
Francisco Alvarez. Barcelona,
and which belonged to Lone
Walker. Lone Walker told of a trip
Mexico that he had made years
before with a war party of Piegans,
Ind of a fight with a party of Span
ards. One of these Lone Walker
lad killed, and he took the white
mans mail shirt and rapier. He said
lie had often worn the mail shirt in
,attle and it had saved his life three
lines.
AS nearly as Monroe could make
Tut from information given him by
4one Walker, the Blackfeet first OBJ
aimed horses from the Spanish and
dexicans in. the south between 1850
nd 1900.