Two Arrows. William O. Stoddard
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William O. Stoddard
Two Arrows
A Story of Red and White
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4064066131142
Table of Contents
THE HUNGRY CAMP
A YOUNG HERO
A BRAVE NAME
THE MINING EXPEDITION
A VERY OLD TRAIL
A THIRSTY MARCH
THE GREAT CAÑON
WATER! WATER!
INTO A NEW WORLD
SILE'S POCKET
A TRAPPED BOY
THE ERRAND OF ONE-EYE
GREAT SCOUTING
A WRESTLING MATCH
A GREAT CAPTAIN
VISITING
MORE FUN
TWO WAR-PARTIES
WONDERFUL FISHING
A FULL CORRAL
THE GOLD MINE
A NEW SETTLEMENT
DANGER
SILE'S VICTORY
A MIDNIGHT MARCH
PREPARING FOR AN ATTACK
FROM BOW TO RIFLE
THE APACHES HAVE COME
STIRRING TIMES
A DARING RIDE
A STORY OF RED AND WHITE
Chapter I
THE HUNGRY CAMP
The mountain countries of all the earth have always been wonder-lands. The oldest and best known of them are to this day full of things that nobody has found out. That is the reason why people are always exploring them, but they keep their secrets remarkably well, particularly the great secret of how they happened to get there in that shape.
The great western mountain country of the United States is made up of range after range of wonderful peaks and ridges, and men have peered in among them here and there, but for all the peering and searching nothing of the wonder to speak of has been rubbed away.
Right in the eastern, edge of one of these mountain ridges, one warm September morning, not long ago, a band of Nez Percé Indians were encamped. It was in what is commonly called "the Far West," because always when you get there the West is as far away as ever. The camp was in a sort of nook, and it was not easy to say whether a spur of the mountain jutted out into the plain, or whether a spur