Identifier: masterofstronghe00broo (find matches)
Title: The master of the strong hearts : a story of Custer's last rally
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Brooks, Elbridge Streeter, 1846-1902
Subjects: Custer, George Armstrong, 1839-1876 Indians of America Historical fiction
Publisher: New York : E.P. Dutton and Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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ed in, andgradually drew nearer the scene of the expectedconference. CHAPTER THE RIVAL CHIEFS. HPHERE were shrill cries, a tossing of hands and1 arms, and all the expressive signs of Indiangreeting as the dozen riders reined in their poniesand gathered about Sitting Bull. Then one dismounted and strode up to the chief. That s him; that s Pi-zi—Chief Gall, youknow, sonny, the squaw-man announced in anexcited whisper. Jack looked with much interest and curiosityupon this noted and well-nigh invincible Indianwarrior. Tall and of splendid physique, almost agiant in stature, his face was as frank and open asthat of Young Wolf himself, between whom and thebig warrior Jack fancied that he could trace a re-semblance. Gall! he exclaimed in an aside to Po-to-sha-sha, why, that means bitter, sour and surly. Idont see anything about him that looks that way. Huh! said the renegade, you dont, eh?Just you wait till you see him real mad once. He sgot more gall than a whole ox-bladder. Now, then, 68
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i I? V) b. W>— i Wu a! a THE RIVAL CHIEFS. 69 you hush up, sonny, if you want me to tell youwhat they re talking about. The talking had already commenced. The squaw-mans free translation epitomized the more involvedand somewhat figurative language of the Indianchiefs. The Bull wants to know what he s here for,and Gall says, to know his medicine. Then theBull says he ought to wait or the bad gods of theTower over yonder (this is all medicine country,you know—what you call haunted) wont send himdreams. Gall says dreams are all right, but hewants to see things done; he says the Long-Swordshave got a lot of stone-hammerers over on theSpearfish—that s your folks and the soldiers, youknow—and the miners 11 be just crowding in here,so s an Injun cant live, he says; he wants to seesomething done right off, fore these Black Hillsare all gobbled up by the gold-thieves. The Bull says as how his medicine will witherevery white foot that steps inside this Black Hillcountry, but Gall say

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