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Old Indian trails

by Walter McClintock

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Author
McClintock, Walter, 1870-1949
Original Publication
United States: Houghton Mifflin Company,1923.
Credits
Jeroen Hellingman, Jude Eylander, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
Language
English
LoC Class
E011: History: America: America
Subject
Old North Trail -- History
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 68074
Release Date
May 14, 2022
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Untitled
  2. 2.PREFACE
  3. 3.CONTENTS
  4. 4.ILLUSTRATIONS
  5. 5.MY INDIAN GUIDE
  6. 6.CROSSING THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS
  7. 7.OUR CAMP NEAR THE SUMMIT
  8. 8.HOME OF THE SCOUT
  9. 9.STORIES BY THE SCOUT’S MOTHER-IN-LAW
  10. 10.MY ADOPTION BY MAD WOLF
  11. 11.MAD WOLF TELLS THE LEGEND OF THE BEAVER BUNDLE
  12. 12.I AM GIVEN AN INDIAN NAME AND MADE A MEMBER OF THE BLACKFOOT TRIBE
  13. 13.HOME OF MAD WOLF
  14. 14.MARRIAGE CUSTOMS
  15. 15.THE HEAD-CHIEF AND HIS WIFE
  16. 16.LEGEND OF THE SMOKING STAR
  17. 17.MY NIGHT EXPERIENCE WITH A GRIZZLY BEAR
  18. 18.INDIAN SUMMER
  19. 19.A FRONTIER DANCE
  20. 20.HUNTING ROCKY MOUNTAIN GOATS
  21. 21.THE BLIZZARD
  22. 22.SNOW-BOUND
  23. 23.THE MAD INDIAN
  24. 24.COMING OF THE CHINOOK
  25. 25.BEGINNING OF SPRING
  26. 26.OUR CAMP IN THE MOUNTAINS
  27. 27.OUR NORTH EXPEDITION
  28. 28.ONESTA AND HIS SACRED BEAR SPEAR
  29. 29.CAMP OF THE BLOOD INDIANS
  30. 30.COUNTRY OF THE NORTH PIEGANS
  31. 31.CAMP OF BRINGS-DOWN-THE-SUN
  32. 32.ONESTA GIVES HIS CROW WATER CEREMONY
  33. 33.THE RIVAL MEDICINE MEN
  34. 34.BRINGS-DOWN-THE-SUN TELLS ABOUT HIS FATHER
  35. 35.BRINGS-DOWN-THE-SUN TELLS ABOUT MEN’S SOCIETIES
  36. 36.BRINGS-DOWN-THE-SUN TELLS ABOUT THE BIRDS AND THE STARS
  37. 37.LEGENDS OF STAR BOY AND SCARFACE
  38. 38.BEGINNING OF THE SUN DANCE
  39. 39.FORMING THE GREAT CIRCLE CAMP
  40. 40.LIFE IN THE CIRCLE CAMP
  41. 41.PAINTED TEPEES AND PICTURE WRITING
  42. 42.A NATIVE DOCTOR AND HIS PATIENT
  43. 43.DANCE OF THE HAIR-PARTERS (GRASS DANCE)
  44. 44.SOCIETY OF BRAVE DOGS
  45. 45.A MEDICINE-PIPE CEREMONY
  46. 46.A SACRED CEREMONY IN MAD WOLF’S TEPEE
  47. 47.THE TRIBAL DANCING-LODGE
  48. 48.END OF THE SUN DANCE AND FAREWELL OF MY INDIAN FATHER
  49. 49.MEDICINAL AND USEFUL PLANTS OF THE BLACKFOOT INDIANS 1 — 1. Materia Medica of the Blackfoot — 2. Plants for Ceremonials — 3. Berries and wild vegetables used for eating — 4. Perfumes — Blackfoot names for flowers
  50. 50.INDEX
  51. 51.Colophon — Availability — Metadata — Revision History — External References — Corrections

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