a wolfskin, both as a guide for his footsteps and a badge of
honour. There is not a tinge of gray in the ample folds of his hair, and
his voice is resonant and strong. His story of the Custer fight, told for
me at the cross marking the spot where Custer fell, to be found in the
Indians' story of that battle, is both thrilling and informing.

[Here Custer Fell]

Here Custer Fell

Seated around the campfire in my tepee while a cold rain sifted through
the canvas, Two Moons became reminiscent. His mother and brother were
called Two Moons, meaning two months--in the Indian tongue, Ish-hay-nishus.
His mind seemed to travel back to his boyhood days, for he started right
in by saying: "When a Cheyenne boy wants to marry a young woman it takes a
long time for them to get acquainted with each other. When he wants to
marry a girl or have her for a sweetheart he tells another fellow with
whom he is acquainted, and who is also acquainted with the girl, and this
young man goes and tells her, the same as a white man writes to the young
lady on paper. And this Indian friend brings them together; this Indian
goes and tells the girl that the boy wants to be a sweetheart to her, and
the girl will say, 'Well, I will think it over.' And then she thinks it
over, and finally says if he comes to see her some time in the day or
night then she will believe that he is a sweetheart of hers. So then the
young man goes to the young girl, and talks to her, and they make up their
minds to get married. They get married after this fashion: the young man
may go to the tent of the girl at night and the girl may come out, then
the boy will take the girl away to his home. So then the next morning the
young man's folks and family bring their presents. They take two or three
horses, good horses, and load these horses up with good stuff, clothes,
shawls, necklaces, bracelets, and moccasins. Then they take the girl back
to her home. The girl's family divides up the presents after they get
home."

"There is another way: When an old man and woman decide they want a
grandchild, they tell their son they are going to buy a certain girl and
he must marry her. Then another Indian goes and tells the girl's family
that they would like to trade for the girl, and if it is all right he goes
back and the boy's people load up some horses with goods, and take them
over to the girl's folks. And then t