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Title: The Sheep Eaters

Author: William Alonzo Allen

Release Date: September 9, 2008 [EBook #26565]

Language: English

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THE SHEEP EATERS

BY

W. A. ALLEN, D.D.S.

[Illustration]

THE SHAKESPEARE PRESS,
114-116 EAST 28TH STREET,
NEW YORK.
1913.

COPYRIGHT, 1913,
_by_
W. A. ALLEN

_This Book Is Affectionately
Dedicated To My Friend_

MRS. CLARA DALLAS.

CONTENTS

Chapter Page

I AN EXTINCT MOUNTAIN TRIBE 7

II THE OLD SQUAW'S TALE 12

III THE GOLD SEEKER IN THE MOUNTAINS 21

IV STARTING FOR THE PAINT ROCKS 30

V A TALK WITH LITTLE BEAR 35

VI CURIOSITIES AROUND PAINT ROCK 45

VII THE STORY OF AGGRETTA AND THE RED ARROW 51

VIII CLOSING WORDS 72

THE SHEEP EATERS

CHAPTER I

AN EXTINCT MOUNTAIN TRIBE

The Sheep Eaters were a tribe of Indians that became extinct about fifty
years ago, and what remaining history there is of this tribe is
inscribed upon granite walls of rock in Wyoming and Montana, and in a
few defiles and canyons, together with a few arrows and tepees remaining
near Black Canyon, whose stream empties into the Big Horn River. Bald
Mountain still holds the great shrine wheel, where the twenty-eight
tribes came semi-annually to worship the sun, and in the most
inaccessible places may still be found the remains of a happy people.
Small in stature and living among the clouds, this proud race lived a
happy life far removed from all other Indians.

The Shoshones seem to be a branch of the Sheep Eaters who afterwards
intermarried wit