As these emigrants were telling their story, we saw four other men approaching. They proved to be R. and his companions, who had encountered no mischance of any kind, but had only wandered too far in pursuit of the game. They said they had seen no Indians, but only “millions of buffalo”; and both R. and Sorel had meat dangling17 behind their saddles.
The emigrants re-crossed the river, and we prepared to follow. First the heavy ox-wagons plunged18 down the bank, and dragged slowly over the sand-beds; sometimes the hoofs21 of the oxen were scarcely wetted by the thin sheet of water; and the next moment the river would be boiling against their sides, and eddying22 fiercely around the wheels. Inch by inch they receded23 from the shore, dwindling24 every moment, until at length they seemed to be floating far in the very middle of the river. A more critical experiment awaited us; for our little mule25-cart was but ill-fitted for the passage of so swift a stream. We watched it with anxiety till it seemed to be a little motionless white speck26 in the midst of the waters; and it WAS motionless, for it had stuck fast in a quicksand. The little mules27 were losing their footing, the wheels were sinking deeper and deeper, and the water began to rise through the bottom and drench28 the goods within. All of us who had remained on the hither bank galloped29 to the rescue; the men jumped into the water, adding their strength to that of the mules, until by much effort the cart was extricated31, and conveyed in safety across.
As we gained the other bank, a rough group of men surrounded us. They were not robust32, nor large of frame, yet they had an aspect of hardy33 endurance. Finding at home no scope for their fiery34 energies, they had betaken themselves to the prairie; and in them seemed to be revived, with redoubled force, that fierce spirit which impelled35 their ancestors, scarce more lawless than themselves, from the German forests, to inundate36 Europe and break to pieces the Roman empire. A fortnight afterward37 this unfortunate party passed Fort Laramie, while we were there. Not one of their missing oxen had been recovered, though they had remained encamped a week in search of them; and they had been compelled to abandon a great part of their baggage and provisions, and yoke38 cows and heifers to their wagons to carry them forward upon their journey, the most toilsome and hazardous39 part of which lay still before them.
It is worth noticing that on the Platte one may sometimes see the shattered wrecks40 of ancient claw-footed tables, well waxed and rubbed, or massive bureaus of carved oak. These, many of them no doubt the relics41 of ancestral prosperity in the colonial time, must have encountered strange vicissitudes43. Imported, perhaps, originally from England; then, with the declining fortunes of their owners, borne across the Alleghenies to the remote wilderness44 of Ohio or Kentucky; then to Illinois or Missouri; and now at last fondly stowed away in the family wagon6 for the interminable journey to Oregon. But the stern privations of the way are little anticipated. The cherished relic42 is soon flung out to scorch45 and crack upon the hot prairie.
We resumed our journey; but we had gone scarcely a mile, when R. called out from the rear:
“We’ll camp here.”
“Why do you want to camp? Look at the sun. It is not three o’clock yet.”
“We’ll camp here!”
This was the only reply vouchsafed46. Delorier was in advance with his cart. Seeing the mule-wagon wheeling from the track, he began to turn his own team in the same direction.
“Go on, Delorier,” and the little cart advanced again. As we rode on, we soon heard the wagon of our confederates creaking and jolting47 on behind us, and the driver, Wright, discharging a furious volley of oaths against his mules; no doubt venting48 upon them the wrath49 which he dared not direct against a more appropriate object.
Something of this sort had frequently occurred. Our English friend was by no means partial to us, and we thought we discovered in his conduct a deliberate intention to thwart50 and annoy us, especially by retarding51 the movements of the party, which he knew that we, being Yankees, were anxious to quicken. Therefore, he would insist on encamping at all unseasonable hours, saying that fifteen miles was a sufficient day’s journey. Finding our wishes systematically52 disregarded, we took the direction of affairs into our own hands. Keeping always in advance, to the inexpressible indignation of R., we encamped at what time and place we thought proper, not much caring whether the rest chose to follow or not. They always did so, however, pitching their tents near ours, with sullen53 and wrathful countenances54.
Traveling together on these agreeable terms did not suit our tastes; for some time we had meditated56 a separation. The connection with this party had cost us various delays and inconveniences; and the glaring want of courtesy and good sense displayed by their virtual leader did not dispose us to bear these annoyances57 with much patience. We resolved to leave camp early in the morning, and push forward as rapidly as possible for Fort Laramie, which we hoped to reach, by hard traveling, in four or five days. The captain soon trotted58 up between us, and we explained our intentions.
“A very extraordinary proceeding59, upon my word!” he remarked. Then he began to enlarge upon the enormity of the design. The most prominent impression in his mind evidently was that we were acting60 a base and treacherous61 part in deserting his party, in what he considered a very dangerous stage of the journey. To palliate the atrocity62 of our conduct, we ventured to suggest that we were only four in number while his party still included sixteen men; and as, moreover, we were to go forward and they were to follow, at least a full proportion of the perils63 he apprehended64 would fall upon us. But the austerity of the captain’s features would not relax. “A very extraordinary proceeding, gentlemen!” and repeating this, he rode off to confer with his principal.
By good luck, we found a meadow of fresh grass, and a large pool of rain-water in the midst of it. We encamped here at sunset. Plenty of buffalo skulls66 were lying around, bleaching67 in the sun; and sprinkled thickly among the grass was a great variety of strange flowers. I had nothing else to do, and so gathering68 a handful, I sat down on a buffalo skull65 to study them. Although the offspring of a wilderness, their texture69 was frail70 and delicate, and their colors extremely rich; pure white, dark blue, and a transparent71 crimson72. One traveling in this country seldom has leisure to think of anything but the stern features of the scenery and its accompaniments, or the practical details of each day’s journey. Like them, he and his thoughts grow hard and rough. But now these flowers suddenly awakened73 a train of associations as alien to the rude scene around me as they were themselves; and for the moment my thoughts went back to New England. A throng74 of fair and well-remembered faces rose, vividly75 as life, before me. “There are good things,” thought I, “in the savage76 life, but what can it offer to replace those powerful and ennobling influences that can reach unimpaired over more than three thousand miles of mountains, forests and deserts?”
Before sunrise on the next morning our tent was down; we harnessed our best horses to the cart and left the camp. But first we shook hands with our friends the emigrants, who sincerely wished us a safe journey, though some others of the party might easily have been consoled had we encountered an Indian war party on the way. The captain and his brother were standing77 on the top of a hill, wrapped in their plaids, like spirits of the mist, keeping an anxious eye on the band of horses below. We waved adieu to them as we rode off the ground. The captain replied with a salutation of the utmost dignity, which Jack78 tried to imitate; but being little practiced in the gestures of polite society, his effort was not a very successful one.
In five minutes we had gained the foot of the hills, but here we came to a stop. Old Hendrick was in the shafts80, and being the very incarnation of perverse81 and brutish obstinacy82, he utterly83 refused to move. Delorier lashed85 and swore till he was tired, but Hendrick stood like a rock, grumbling86 to himself and looking askance at his enemy, until he saw a favorable opportunity to take his revenge, when he struck out under the shaft79 with such cool malignity87 of intention that Delorier only escaped the blow by a sudden skip into the air, such as no one but a Frenchman could achieve. Shaw and he then joined forces, and lashed on both sides at once. The brute88 stood still for a while till he could bear it no longer, when all at once he began to kick and plunge19 till he threatened the utter demolition89 of the cart and harness. We glanced back at the camp, which was in full sight. Our companions, inspired by emulation90, were leveling their tents and driving in their cattle and horses.
“Take the horse out,” said I.
I took the saddle from Pontiac and put it upon Hendrick; the former was harnessed to the cart in an instant. “Avance donc!” cried Delorier. Pontiac strode up the hill, twitching91 the little cart after him as if it were a feather’s weight; and though, as we gained the top, we saw the wagons of our deserted92 comrades just getting into motion, we had little fear that they could overtake us. Leaving the trail, we struck directly across the country, and took the shortest cut to reach the main stream of the Platte. A deep ravine suddenly intercepted93 us. We skirted its sides until we found them less abrupt94, and then plunged through the best way we could. Passing behind the sandy ravines called “Ash Hollow,” we stopped for a short nooning at the side of a pool of rain-water; but soon resumed our journey, and some hours before sunset were descending95 the ravines and gorges96 opening downward upon the Platte to the west of Ash Hollow. Our horses waded to the fetlock in sand; the sun scorched97 like fire, and the air swarmed98 with sand-flies and mosquitoes.
At last we gained the Platte. Following it for about five miles, we saw, just as the sun was sinking, a great meadow, dotted with hundreds of cattle, and beyond them an emigrant encampment. A party of about a dozen came out to meet us, looking upon us at first with cold and suspicious faces. Seeing four men, different in appearance and equipment from themselves, emerging from the hills, they had taken us for the van of the much-dreaded Mormons, whom they were very apprehensive99 of encountering. We made known our true character, and then they greeted us cordially. They expressed much surprise that so small a party should venture to traverse that region, though in fact such attempts are not unfrequently made by trappers and Indian traders. We rode with them to their camp. The wagons, some fifty in number, with here and there a tent intervening, were arranged as usual in a circle; in the area within the best horses were picketed101, and the whole circumference102 was glowing with the dusky light of the fires, displaying the forms of the women and children who were crowded around them. This patriarchal scene was curious and striking enough; but we made our escape from the place with all possible dispatch, being tormented103 by the intrusive104 curiosity of the men who crowded around us. Yankee curiosity was nothing to theirs. They demanded our names, where we came from, where we were going, and what was our business. The last query105 was particularly embarrassing; since traveling in that country, or indeed anywhere, from any other motive106 than gain, was an idea of which they took no cognizance. Yet they were fine-looking fellows, with an air of frankness, generosity107, and even courtesy, having come from one of the least barbarous of the frontier counties.
We passed about a mile beyond them, and encamped. Being too few in number to stand guard without excessive fatigue108, we extinguished our fire, lest it should attract the notice of wandering Indians; and picketing109 our horses close around us, slept undisturbed till morning. For three days we traveled without interruption, and on the evening of the third encamped by the well-known spring on Scott’s Bluff110.
Henry Chatillon and I rode out in the morning, and descending the western side of the Bluff, were crossing the plain beyond. Something that seemed to me a file of buffalo came into view, descending the hills several miles before us. But Henry reined111 in his horse, and keenly peering across the prairie with a better and more practiced eye, soon discovered its real nature. “Indians!” he said. “Old Smoke’s lodges113, I b’lieve. Come! let us go! Wah! get up, now, Five Hundred Dollar!” And laying on the lash84 with good will, he galloped forward, and I rode by his side. Not long after, a black speck became visible on the prairie, full two miles off. It grew larger and larger; it assumed the form of a man and horse; and soon we could discern a naked Indian, careering at full gallop30 toward us. When within a furlong he wheeled his horse in a wide circle, and made him describe various mystic figures upon the prairie; and Henry immediately compelled Five Hundred Dollar to execute similar evolutions. “It IS Old Smoke’s village,” said he, interpreting these signals; “didn’t I say so?”
As the Indian approached we stopped to wait for him, when suddenly he vanished, sinking, as it were, into the earth. He had come upon one of the deep ravines that everywhere intersect these prairies. In an instant the rough head of his horse stretched upward from the edge and the rider and steed came scrambling115 out, and hounded up to us; a sudden jerk of the rein112 brought the wild panting horse to a full stop. Then followed the needful formality of shaking hands. I forget our visitor’s name. He was a young fellow, of no note in his nation; yet in his person and equipments he was a good specimen116 of a Dakota warrior117 in his ordinary traveling dress. Like most of his people, he was nearly six feet high; lithely118 and gracefully119, yet strongly proportioned; and with a skin singularly clear and delicate. He wore no paint; his head was bare; and his long hair was gathered in a clump120 behind, to the top of which was attached transversely, both by way of ornament121 and of talisman122, the mystic whistle, made of the wingbone of the war eagle, and endowed with various magic virtues123. From the back of his head descended124 a line of glittering brass125 plates, tapering126 from the size of a doubloon to that of a half-dime, a cumbrous ornament, in high vogue127 among the Dakotas, and for which they pay the traders a most extravagant128 price; his chest and arms were naked, the buffalo robe, worn over them when at rest, had fallen about his waist, and was confined there by a belt. This, with the gay moccasins on his feet, completed his attire129. For arms he carried a quiver of dogskin at his back, and a rude but powerful bow in his hand. His horse had no bridle130; a cord of hair, lashed around his jaw131, served in place of one. The saddle was of most singular construction; it was made of wood covered with raw hide, and both pommel and cantle rose perpendicularly132 full eighteen inches, so that the warrior was wedged firmly in his seat, whence nothing could dislodge him but the bursting of the girths.
Advancing with our new companion, we found more of his people seated in a circle on the top of a hill; while a rude procession came straggling down the neighboring hollow, men, women, and children, with horses dragging the lodge114-poles behind them. All that morning, as we moved forward, tall savages134 were stalking silently about us. At noon we reached Horse Creek135; and as we waded through the shallow water, we saw a wild and striking scene. The main body of the Indians had arrived before us. On the farther bank stood a large and strong man, nearly naked, holding a white horse by a long cord, and eyeing us as we approached. This was the chief, whom Henry called “Old Smoke.” Just behind him his youngest and favorite squaw sat astride of a fine mule; it was covered with caparisons of whitened skins, garnished136 with blue and white beads137, and fringed with little ornaments138 of metal that tinkled139 with every movement of the animal. The girl had a light clear complexion140, enlivened by a spot of vermilion on each cheek; she smiled, not to say grinned, upon us, showing two gleaming rows of white teeth. In her hand, she carried the tall lance of her unchivalrous lord, fluttering with feathers; his round white shield hung at the side of her mule; and his pipe was slung141 at her back. Her dress was a tunic142 of deerskin, made beautifully white by means of a species of clay found on the prairie, and ornamented143 with beads, arrayed in figures more gay than tasteful, and with long fringes at all the seams. Not far from the chief stood a group of stately figures, their white buffalo robes thrown over their shoulders, gazing coldly upon us; and in the rear, for several acres, the ground was covered with a temporary encampment; men, women, and children swarmed like bees; hundreds of dogs, of all sizes and colors, ran restlessly about; and, close at hand, the wide shallow stream was alive with boys, girls, and young squaws, splashing, screaming, and laughing in the water. At the same time a long train of emigrant wagons were crossing the creek, and dragging on in their slow, heavy procession, passed the encampment of the people whom they and their descendants, in the space of a century, are to sweep from the face of the earth.
The encampment itself was merely a temporary one during the heat of the day. None of the lodges were erected144; but their heavy leather coverings, and the long poles used to support them, were scattered everywhere around, among weapons, domestic utensils145, and the rude harness of mules and horses. The squaws of each lazy warrior had made him a shelter from the sun, by stretching a few buffalo robes, or the corner of a lodge-covering upon poles; and here he sat in the shade, with a favorite young squaw, perhaps, at his side, glittering with all imaginable trinkets. Before him stood the insignia of his rank as a warrior, his white shield of bull-hide, his medicine bag, his bow and quiver, his lance and his pipe, raised aloft on a tripod of three poles. Except the dogs, the most active and noisy tenants146 of the camp were the old women, ugly as Macbeth’s witches, with their hair streaming loose in the wind, and nothing but the tattered147 fragment of an old buffalo robe to hide their shriveled wiry limbs. The day of their favoritism passed two generations ago; now the heaviest labors148 of the camp devolved upon them; they were to harness the horses, pitch the lodges, dress the buffalo robes, and bring in meat for the hunters. With the cracked voices of these hags, the clamor of dogs, the shouting and laughing of children and girls, and the listless tranquillity149 of the warriors150, the whole scene had an effect too lively and picturesque151 ever to be forgotten.
We stopped not far from the Indian camp, and having invited some of the chiefs and warriors to dinner, placed before them a sumptuous152 repast of biscuit and coffee. Squatted153 in a half circle on the ground, they soon disposed of it. As we rode forward on the afternoon journey, several of our late guests accompanied us. Among the rest was a huge bloated savage of more than three hundred pounds’ weight, christened La Cochon, in consideration of his preposterous154 dimensions and certain corresponding traits of his character. “The Hog155” bestrode a little white pony156, scarce able to bear up under the enormous burden, though, by way of keeping up the necessary stimulus157, the rider kept both feet in constant motion, playing alternately against his ribs158. The old man was not a chief; he never had ambition enough to become one; he was not a warrior nor a hunter, for he was too fat and lazy: but he was the richest man in the whole village. Riches among the Dakotas consist in horses, and of these The Hog had accumulated more than thirty. He had already ten times as many as he wanted, yet still his appetite for horses was insatiable. Trotting159 up to me he shook me by the hand, and gave me to understand that he was a very devoted160 friend; and then he began a series of most earnest signs and gesticulations, his oily countenance55 radiant with smiles, and his little eyes peeping out with a cunning twinkle from between the masses of flesh that almost obscured them. Knowing nothing at that time of the sign language of the Indians, I could only guess at his meaning. So I called on Henry to explain it.
The Hog, it seems, was anxious to conclude a matrimonial bargain. He said he had a very pretty daughter in his lodge, whom he would give me, if I would give him my horse. These flattering overtures161 I chose to reject; at which The Hog, still laughing with undiminished good humor, gathered his robe about his shoulders, and rode away.
Where we encamped that night, an arm of the Platte ran between high bluffs162; it was turbid163 and swift as heretofore, but trees were growing on its crumbling164 banks, and there was a nook of grass between the water and the hill. Just before entering this place, we saw the emigrants encamping at two or three miles’ distance on the right; while the whole Indian rabble165 were pouring down the neighboring hill in hope of the same sort of entertainment which they had experienced from us. In the savage landscape before our camp, nothing but the rushing of the Platte broke the silence. Through the ragged20 boughs166 of the trees, dilapidated and half dead, we saw the sun setting in crimson behind the peaks of the Black Hills; the restless bosom167 of the river was suffused168 with red; our white tent was tinged169 with it, and the sterile170 bluffs, up to the rocks that crowned them, partook of the same fiery hue171. It soon passed away; no light remained, but that from our fire, blazing high among the dusky trees and bushes. We lay around it wrapped in our blankets, smoking and conversing172 until a late hour, and then withdrew to our tent.
We crossed a sun-scorched plain on the next morning; the line of old cotton-wood trees that fringed the bank of the Platte forming its extreme verge173. Nestled apparently174 close beneath them, we could discern in the distance something like a building. As we came nearer, it assumed form and dimensions, and proved to be a rough structure of logs. It was a little trading fort, belonging to two private traders; and originally intended, like all the forts of the country, to form a hollow square, with rooms for lodging175 and storage opening upon the area within. Only two sides of it had been completed; the place was now as ill-fitted for the purposes of defense176 as any of those little log-houses, which upon our constantly shifting frontier have been so often successfully maintained against overwhelming odds177 of Indians. Two lodges were pitched close to the fort; the sun beat scorching178 upon the logs; no living thing was stirring except one old squaw, who thrust her round head from the opening of the nearest lodge, and three or four stout179 young pups, who were peeping with looks of eager inquiry180 from under the covering. In a moment a door opened, and a little, swarthy black-eyed Frenchman came out. His dress was rather singular; his black curling hair was parted in the middle of his head, and fell below his shoulders; he wore a tight frock of smoked deerskin, very gayly ornamented with figures worked in dyed porcupine181 quills182. His moccasins and leggings were also gaudily183 adorned184 in the same manner; and the latter had in addition a line of long fringes, reaching down the seams. The small frame of Richard, for by this name Henry made him known to us, was in the highest degree athletic185 and vigorous. There was no superfluity, and indeed there seldom is among the active white men of this country, but every limb was compact and hard; every sinew had its full tone and elasticity186, and the whole man wore an air of mingled187 hardihood and buoyancy.
Richard committed our horses to a Navahoe slave, a mean looking fellow taken prisoner on the Mexican frontier; and, relieving us of our rifles with ready politeness, led the way into the principal apartment of his establishment. This was a room ten feet square. The walls and floor were of black mud, and the roof of rough timber; there was a huge fireplace made of four flat rocks, picked up on the prairie. An Indian bow and otter-skin quiver, several gaudy188 articles of Rocky Mountain finery, an Indian medicine bag, and a pipe and tobacco pouch189, garnished the walls, and rifles rested in a corner. There was no furniture except a sort of rough settle covered with buffalo robes, upon which lolled a tall half-breed, with his hair glued in masses upon each temple, and saturated190 with vermilion. Two or three more “mountain men” sat cross-legged on the floor. Their attire was not unlike that of Richard himself; but the most striking figure of the group was a naked Indian boy of sixteen, with a handsome face, and light, active proportions, who sat in an easy posture191 in the corner near the door. Not one of his limbs moved the breadth of a hair; his eye was fixed192 immovably, not on any person present, but, as it appeared, on the projecting corner of the fireplace opposite to him.
On these prairies the custom of smoking with friends is seldom omitted, whether among Indians or whites. The pipe, therefore, was taken from the wall, and its great red bowl crammed193 with the tobacco and shongsasha, mixed in suitable proportions. Then it passed round the circle, each man inhaling194 a few whiffs and handing it to his neighbor. Having spent half an hour here, we took our leave; first inviting195 our new friends to drink a cup of coffee with us at our camp, a mile farther up the river. By this time, as the reader may conceive, we had grown rather shabby; our clothes had burst into rags and tatters; and what was worse, we had very little means of renovation196. Fort Laramie was but seven miles before us. Being totally averse100 to appearing in such plight197 among any society that could boast an approximation to the civilized198, we soon stopped by the river to make our toilet in the best way we could. We hung up small looking-glasses against the trees and shaved, an operation neglected for six weeks; we performed our ablutions in the Platte, though the utility of such a proceeding was questionable199, the water looking exactly like a cup of chocolate, and the banks consisting of the softest and richest yellow mud, so that we were obliged, as a preliminary, to build a cause-way of stout branches and twigs200. Having also put on radiant moccasins, procured201 from a squaw of Richard’s establishment, and made what other improvements our narrow circumstances allowed, we took our seats on the grass with a feeling of greatly increased respectability, to wait the arrival of our guests. They came; the banquet was concluded, and the pipe smoked. Bidding them adieu, we turned our horses’ heads toward the fort.
An hour elapsed. The barren hills closed across our front, and we could see no farther; until having surmounted202 them, a rapid stream appeared at the foot of the descent, running into the Platte; beyond was a green meadow, dotted with bushes, and in the midst of these, at the point where the two rivers joined, were the low clay walls of a fort. This was not Fort Laramie, but another post of less recent date, which having sunk before its successful competitor was now deserted and ruinous. A moment after the hills, seeming to draw apart as we advanced, disclosed Fort Laramie itself, its high bastions and perpendicular133 walls of clay crowning an eminence203 on the left beyond the stream, while behind stretched a line of arid204 and desolate205 ridges, and behind these again, towering aloft seven thousand feet, arose the grim Black Hills.
We tried to ford1 Laramie Creek at a point nearly opposite the fort, but the stream, swollen206 with the rains in the mountains, was too rapid. We passed up along its bank to find a better crossing place. Men gathered on the wall to look at us. “There’s Bordeaux!” called Henry, his face brightening as he recognized his acquaintance; “him there with the spyglass; and there’s old Vaskiss, and Tucker, and May; and, by George! there’s Cimoneau!” This Cimoneau was Henry’s fast friend, and the only man in the country who could rival him in hunting.
We soon found a ford. Henry led the way, the pony approaching the bank with a countenance of cool indifference207, bracing208 his feet and sliding into the stream with the most unmoved composure.
At the first plunge the horse sunk low,
And the water broke o’er the saddle-bow
We followed; the water boiled against our saddles, but our horses bore us easily through. The unfortunate little mules came near going down with the current, cart and all; and we watched them with some solicitude209 scrambling over the loose round stones at the bottom, and bracing stoutly210 against the stream. All landed safely at last; we crossed a little plain, descended a hollow, and riding up a steep bank found ourselves before the gateway211 of Fort Laramie, under the impending212 blockhouse erected above it to defend the entrance.
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