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Title: Thrilling adventures among the Indians: comprising the most remarkable personal narratives of events in the early Indian Wars, as well as of incidents in the recent Indian hostilities in Mexico and Texas
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Frost, John, 1800-1859
Subjects: Indians of North America Indians of North America
Publisher: Boston, L. P. Crown & Co. Philadelphia, J. W. Bradley
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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battle.By this time they had observed that a part of thetrading force were Mexicans; and with true Indiancunning they prepared to take advantage of it. Ayoung warrior left his ranks and riding up to withina short distance, exhorted his Mexican friends todesert the Americans. This was accompanied withthe assurance that they should be well treated, whileto the Americans no quarter was to be shown. TheMexicans treated the invitation with scorn, und bothparties now prepared for a struggle. During thepreliminary season of suspense, an aged squaw un-expectedly rode up, and addressing the chiefs exhortedthem to remember the ties of friendship existing be-tween the Yutas and the Americans, and to rejectthe council of a few impetuous youths, who wereclamorous for war. This strange mediation was fa-vourably received; both parties relaxed their militarybearing; the stolen horse was restored, and the adven-ture terminated by a social smoke between the tradersand their strangely acquired friends.
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HUNTING THE BUFFALO BY STRATAGEM. 297 pirating t&e Buffalo h$ Stratagem* The western territories, especially the portionsnear the Rocky Mountains, abound in wolves, ofwhich the most numerous and formidable is a whitespecies, which attains a great size, and is considereda good match for the largest dog. These animalsprowl about in flocks of fifty or sixty, attacking anysolitary animal that may fall within their reach. Thebuffalo is their favourite prey; and they always fol-low in the hunters track to glean what he leaves,or to kill some unfortunate bull, which may chanceto secrete himself from man. But, when the buffa-loes are herded together, they have little fear of thewolf, and will permit him to approach very nearthem. Of this sense of security the Indian hunterfrequently takes advantage. Covering himself witha white wolfs skin, he creeps across the prairie, anddischarges his arrows among the unsuspecting herdwith fatal effect. Of course, the fattest and mosttender are selected

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