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Title: The white Indian boy : the story of Uncle Nick among the Shoshones
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Wilson, Elijah Nicholas, 1842-1915 Driggs, Howard R. (Howard Roscoe), 1873-1963
Subjects: Wilson, Elijah Nicholas, 1842-1915 Shoshoni Indians Frontier and pioneer life
Publisher: Yonkers-on-Hudson, NY : World Book Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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see, and the wholecountry round about was covered with horses and dogs.As nearly as I could find out, about six thousand Indianshad gathered. When I asked the chief how many therewere, he said that he could not count them. And tothink that I was the only white person within hundredsof miles, perhaps! It gave me rather a queer feeling. Mother kept very close watch over me for fear that Ishould get hurt or lost among so many Indians. When-ever I went around to see what was going on, she wasnearly always by my side. She warned me especiallyagainst Pocatellos Indians, telling me that they werevery bad, that they would steal me and take me awayoff and sell me to Indians that would eat me up. Shescared me so badly that I stuck pretty close to her mostof the time. The Indians spent much of their time horse-racingand gambling. They would bet very heavily; I sawan Indian win fifty head of ponies on one race. TwoIndians were killed while racing their horses, and a squaw 24 The White Indian Boy
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The Great Encampment 25 and her papoose were run over; the papoose was alsokilled. Some of Pocatellos Indians had several scalps theyhad taken from some poor emigrants they had killed.I saw six of these scalps. One was of a woman with redhair, one a girls scalp with dark hair, and four were mensscalps, one with gray hair, the rest with dark hair. Icannot describe the feelings I had when I saw the reddevils dancing around those scalps. It made me wishthat I were home again herding sheep and living onlumpy dick and greens. Washakies Indians had a few Crow scalps, for at thistime the Shoshones and Crows were at war with eachother. I am pretty sure that they had no white scalps;or if they had, they did not let me see them. The Indians had great times dancing around the scalps.They would stick a small pole in the ground and stringscalps on it. Then they would dance around it, singingand yelling at the top of their voices, making the mosthorrible noises I ever heard. The leaders of the diff

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