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  THE SHEEP EATERS

  BY

  W. A. ALLEN, D.D.S.


  [Illustration]


  THE SHAKESPEARE PRESS,
  114-116 EAST 28TH STREET,
  NEW YORK.
  1913.


  COPYRIGHT, 1913,
  _by_
  W. A. ALLEN


  _This Book Is Affectionately
   Dedicated To My Friend_

  MRS. CLARA DALLAS.




CONTENTS


  Chapter                                        Page

     I  AN EXTINCT MOUNTAIN TRIBE                   7

    II  THE OLD SQUAW'S TALE                       12

   III  THE GOLD SEEKER IN THE MOUNTAINS           21

    IV  STARTING FOR THE PAINT ROCKS               30

     V  A TALK WITH LITTLE BEAR                    35

    VI  CURIOSITIES AROUND PAINT ROCK              45

   VII  THE STORY OF AGGRETTA AND THE RED ARROW    51

  VIII  CLOSING WORDS                              72




THE SHEEP EATERS




CHAPTER I

AN EXTINCT MOUNTAIN TRIBE


The Sheep Eaters were a tribe of Indians that became extinct about fifty
years ago, and what remaining history there is of this tribe is
inscribed upon granite walls of rock in Wyoming and Montana, and in a
few defiles and canyons, together with a few arrows and tepees remaining
near Black Canyon, whose stream empties into the Big Horn River. Bald
Mountain still holds the great shrine wheel, where the twenty-eight
tribes came semi-annually to worship the sun, and in the most
inaccessible places may still be found the remains of a happy people.
Small in stature and living among the clouds, this proud race lived a
happy life far removed from all other Indians.

The Shoshones seem to