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scorn V CAVAIW the civilian scout
Like any army in
wars, punitive expeditions
or patrols, the u. s. cavalry
of the old west also had
its scouts. cavalry
commanders relied on
local hunters for
information as to the
whereabouts of hostile
indian tribes, their ways
of life and warfare,
these quiet plainsmen
often proved the
difference between
success or defeat in
battles with the
RED MEN.

THE INDIAN SCOUT

i!=ike the white civilian

hunter, the indian scout proved
avaluable asset to the u.s.
cavalry in its forays against
rebellious indians. as a
tracker, he was supreme and
his knowledge of the indian
way of thinking led the troopers
to many smashing victories.

Constant inter-tribal
warfare and the inhuman cruelty
of some chieftains turned many
indians to the relative security
of the white man's way of life,
hence, his willingness to aid
his new chieftains in army blue
and cavalry yellow.

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From the massive, rocky outcropping

that good deal of blood.
rose obove the plain. Wolf Brother the
"Take your knife and cut it out. Wolf, Broth-
Pawnee, and Prairie Rose his bride-to-be
er," the girl said calmly. "If you
gazed down on a vast stretch of lifeless do not, the
dust. arrowhead will cripple me-ond do not want
Every blade of grass, every weed and bush I

you to have a crippled wife."

had vanished, ground into the earth
by the, Wolf Brother could not speak. He drew his
thundering hoofs of stampeding buffalo.
Dust knife and performed the operation.
hung the air, Then he
still in and covered the rocks, hurried down to the nearest dead buffalo and
and turned from brown to gray the
carcasses cut a broad strip of hide for a bandage. It
of four huge beasts that the
stampede had was the best he could do.
crushed.
Rose was feverish that night, but in
Prairie
Over all hung a deathly silence.
A silence the next two days her strength
so complete that a little gasp from Prairie returned rap-
idly. Wolf Brother dried
buffalo meat over a
Rose made Wolf Brother whirl in alarm! His little fire, so that they
arm caught the
would have no lack of
girl, just as she sank fainting food ... But water was the real
to the rock. problem-
water and the lack of a horse to carry PrairC
"What-?" the young man began. Then he Rose on the trail home! The tiny pool of mois-
choked with sudden fear. The warm wetness
ture left from the last rain in a
on hishand that pressed the girl's back was- hollow of the
rocks would be gone in another
blood. An arrow wound! The Sioux raiders twenty-four
hours.
that had attacked them just before the stam-
"I urn going to hunt a pair of
pede— horses for
us," the young Pawnee told his Prairie Rose,
not deep," Prairie Rose whispered, as
"it is
that last morning. "I shall follow the buffalo,
he turned her gently onto her face. "I
pulled Somewhere in the wake of the
out the shaft ... so that you would Greet Herd I
not see shall find meat hunters-perhaps the very
il and be anxious during the fight! But the Sioux who tried to kill us . . . Pray to the
arrowhead is still there, broken off ." . .
Great Spirit that my 'medicine' may be
Wolf Brother groaned. He could feel the
strong!"
stone arrowhead, half embedded in the
bone "I will. Wolf Brother!" the girl replied with
of her shoulder blade. must be causing her
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terrible pain-and already she had lost a
 Before leaving, he laid the girl's bow beside
her, and half o dozen reclaimed Sioux ar-
rows. He had spread a buffalo hide over her
niche in the rocks to keep off the sun. Two
other hides made her a bed. The fourth one
Wolf Brother had made into a braided raw-
hide lariat. i
All day he traveled, at a steady, mile-l
eating lope, Always his eyes searched the!
horizon, the dips and folds of the land, for"
sign of his enemies. Just before dark he found
them— the bones and heads of buffalo, killed
for their meat, and cut up by squaws. The
marks of travo'is poles, pulled by horses,
showed the direction af the camp.
Wolf Brother went on, mare careful not to
be seen. At nightfall, he came to a dry creek,
and a scent of smoke in the air. Far down the
creek bed he cought the glimmer of a camp-
fire.
It was a camp of the Sioux: a score of
braves and as many squaws. The men were
lolling at ease, finishing their meal. Wolf
Brother's mouth watered, but he moved noise-
lessly aside— to look for the horses. Instantly, Wolf Brother was on- that, pony's
There was only one horse-guard. Crawling back. With a shrill whoop he swung his coiled
upwind, Wolf Brother gave the horses no lariat. The horses bolted, like scared coyotes.
chance him and snort a warning. At
to smell Faintly, from the direction of the Sioux camp,
the last moment, he rose silently up behind came answering whoops of rage.
the guard with a five pound stone in his hand. Ten miles from camp. Wolf Brother roped
There was a dull "Thump!"— and the guard the two best horses in the bunch, and let the
slipped uncwtscious from his rest scatter. Sioux trackers would have trouble
telling which of them bore a rider.
Dawn was a pale glimmer in the eastern
sky when he rode into the shadows at the
base of the Buffalo Rocks. There he tethered
his horses. Quietly, hoping to surprise
his

Prairie Rose, he climbed to the niche where

she would be sleeping.
Just outside the tiny shelter he halted,
aghast. The place was empty! Even the girl's
bow and arrows were missing. But her bed
was still warm!
"Stolen!" muttered Wolf Brother through
tight, clenched teeth. "Some enemy has found
her— within the time that a man could run ten
bowshots!"
Like a wounded panther, he bounded
toward the high point of the Rocks-only to
halt with a glad cry at the sight of the girl's
lithe figure. The next instant Prairie Rose
was
in his arms.
"I climbed up to watch for you.
Wolf
Brother!" she told him. "1 could not wait until
the sun came up! But now— now, all is well!"
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