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Title: The lure of the Black Hills
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Lange, D. (Dietrich), 1863-1940
Subjects: Dakota Indians
Publisher: Boston : Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ot break it, but you 8 LUBE OF THE BLACK HILLS could hammer it flat. Could these pebblesbe gold? The story that there was great wealth ofgold in the Black Mountains was one of thosevague but persistent rumors that circulatedat the camp-fires in the wild Missouri Rivercountry. From many points near the Chey-enne and Belle Fourche Eivers, the BlackHills could be seen like a long wavy line ofblack clouds, standing out sharp against thehorizon, and not rarely they merged with thereal thunder-clouds that crossed them fromthe west and poured torrents of rain upon thedark shale bluffs of the Missouri and uponthe gray gullied and serrated walls of theBad Lands. Benton and his friends had heard thesestories many times when they camped on theplains, where they could see Harney Peak,like a distant black cloud, silhouetted againstthe sky from fifty to a hundred miles away.They had several times tried to run downthese stories, but in each instance their in-quiries had ended in nothing. Some Indian
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e a. oo HPQ 73 - -s - H Q iJ& O PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR,TILDES FOUNDATION R AT OLD FORT PIERRE 9 or some trapper who had been in the hills along time ago had told the story, but the manhimself was never to be found. Occasionallya few Indian families camped near one of theouter ridges of the hills and cut a supply ofyoung pines for lodge-poles, but they did notventure far up the narrow valleys and deepcanyons among the steep slopes of jaggedrocks and gloomy looking forests of pine.They preferred the open plains and thesparsely wooded and sunny valleys of theMissouri and its many tributaries. More-over, the buffalo herds on which they lived,grazed on the open plains and furnished amore certain supply of meat than the fleetdeer and elk that inhabited the glades andforests of the Black Hills. Now, at last, the story had come direct tothe three men, who had felt for some timethat there was nothing ahead of them in thefur trade. There was no doubt about Tankaheeta hav-ing been in the heart

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