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ON WAY BACK TO LITTLE BIG HORN I LEARN THE TWO YOUNG MEN WERE NAME ,CROW AND SHAWNEE. ONE WAS SIXTEEN SEASON OLDS AND OTHER WAS EIGHTEEN SEASON OLD. YOUNG BUT THEY BE BACK BONE OF TRIBE SOON. BOWSER ,BLACKBIRD, AND RED DEER NOT MUCH OLDER, AND BEN CLOSE TO SAME. WE MADE GOOD TIME BACK HOME NOT MUCH HAPPEN, WE CHAT WITH OUR NEW MEN AND THEY WERE LOOKING FORWARD TO HAVE A FAMILY AND WOMAN TO LOVE AND BE WITH, AND OUT ON THEIR ON . THIS I LOOK AT AS GOOD SIGN. WE REACH HOME CLOSE TO NOON THE SECOND DAY. I CALL THE WOMEN OUT OF STORM CLOUD TEE PEE AND INTRODUCE THEM TO YOUNG MEN. FEATHER IN THE BREEZE SEEM TO BE LOOKING HARD AT SHAWNEE, AND DUE DROP ALREADY LATCH ON CROW THEY CLOSE SAME AGE. PREACHER WITH HIS MATCH MAKING DONE WENT TO SEE AURORA. WHEN HE GOT TO TEEPEE SHE WAS IN HIS ARMS AND BIG HUG AND A NOSE RUB OUT THIS WORLD SHE EVEN PUT HER LIPS TO HIS CHEEK. PREACHER LOVE THAT. PREACHER HOW YOU DOING HUN? SHE SAID DOING FINE NOT SORE ANY MORE. PREACHER HOW THE BABY'S [AURORA] THEY DOING FINE.. GOOD SAID PREACHER YOU GET LOT FOOD FROM TATERBUG? [AURORA] YES HE DID GOOD, AND YOU KNOW THERE WAS A YOUNG MAN HERE AT NIGHT WATCHING ME . PREACHER YES BLACK BIRD. HE BEEN WATCHING OUT FOR US AFTER STORM CLOUD CAME TO LIGHT. [AURORA] DO NOT LOOK BUT SOME ONE ON THE HILL LOOKING DOWN AT US. [PREACHER] WHERE? [AURORA] UP THERE AND SHE POINTED TO PERSON ON TOP OF THE RIDGE. [PREACHER] I WILL GO SEE WHAT HE WANTS. PREACHER PICK UP HIS BOW AND SPEAR AND WENT TO MEET THE MAN. WHEN HE GOT TO RIDGE MAN JUST STOOD THERE. [MAN] MY NAME IS YELLOW FEATHER. I WAS TRYING TO CATCH YOU TO FINE OUT IF YOU HAD A OLDER WOMAN THAT MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN OLDER MAN. YOU WAS GONE BEFORE I FOUND OUT YOU WAS AT OUR CAMP. [PREACHER] I GOT A SPECIAL WOMAN, BUT YOU GOT BE SPECIAL MAN. SHE A MEDICINE WOMAN. SHE WAS BEAT BY OLD CHIEF WHICH I KILL .IT TAKE A GOOD MAN FULL LOVE TO WIN HER. YOU CAN JOIN US AND TRY WIN HER OVER THAT’S BEST I CAN DO. SHE A GOOD WOMAN AND SENIOR WOMAN OF THE OTHER TRIBE THAT JOIN US. [[YELLOW FEATHER] I THINK I AM THAT MAN. I HAD A WOMAN I LOVE SO MUCH SHE JUST DIED ONE DAY. MY HART WAS BROKEN .. I NEVER HIT HER NOR WILL I HIT A WOMAN. [PREACHER] YOU GOT CHANCE THEN, BUT I DO NOT MAKE THAT DECISION SHE DOES. COME WITH ME AND I INTRODUCE YOU TO HER.
[PREACHER TOOK YELLOW FEATHER TO STORM CLOUD TEE PEE AND CALL FOR BEV. BEV CAME OUT .[PREACHER] BEV I GOT ONE WANTS TO MEET YOU ,THIS IS YELLOW FEATHER. BEV I TOLD YOU I WAS NOT INTERESTED IN MAN NOW. MY BRUISE NOT EVEN HEAL AND SHE SHOW THEM. AND YELLOW FEATHER LOOK DOWN. [PREACHER] HE WALK FOR TWO DAYS BY HIM SELF THREW DANGER TO SEE IF YOU WERE HEAR. HE SPECIAL I THINK. .HAD GOOD WOMAN NEVER BEAT HER SHE DROP DEAD ON HIM. IF I WAS YOU LOOK HIM OVER. I THINK HE THE ONE. GIVE IT TIME HE GOING TO JOIN US ,THIS GIVE YOU TIME TO FINE YOUR HART AGAIN. BEV] THIS I DO IF YOU THINK HE THE ONE. [PREACHER] I THINK HE THE ONE. GIVE IT A CHANCE. [BEV] HE ANT SLEEPING WITH ME UNTIL I AM SURE. YELLOW FEATHER I SLEEP BY CAMP FIRE UNTIL I GET A TEE PEE. [PREACHER I GOT 3 BISON ROBES I GIVE YOU ONE MAKE A RAIN COVER OUT OF AND TWO KEEP YOU WARM MAKE YOU A FIRE AND SLEEP LIKE ON THE MOVE. [PREACHER I SHOW YOU WHERE .[YELLOW FEATHER TURN TO BEV AND SAID I AM GLAD PREACHER KILL THE ONE DID THIS TO YOU. I AM REALLY SORRY FOR YOUR PAIN. PREACHER LEAD YELLOW FEATHER TO HI SPOT SAID PUT A FORKED STICK HERE AND HERE AND LAY A POLE IN THE FORKS AND PUT ONE ROBE OVER IT .AND TIE DOWN WITH STAKES .BUILD YOU A RAISE BED LAD ONE ROBE DOWN AS PADDING AND ONE FOR COVER. THIS WAY WATER RUN UNDER BED YOU STAY DRY. YELLOW FEATHER] THINK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE CHANCE AND YOUR HELP WITH BEV. [PREACHER] LOVE THAT WOMAN AND CHERISH HER [SHE SPECIAL]. YOU GOING RIGHT DO NOT STOP. WHEN HE WAS SET UP AND HAD FIRE GOING PREACHER WENT BACK TO AURORA.
WHEN GOT TO HIS TEEPEE [AURORA ]WHAT HE WANT? [PREACHER HE FROM RED FOX CAMP HE LOOKING FOR OLDER WOMAN. I INTRODUCE HIM TO BEV. [AURORA] THAT MIGHT BE A GOOD THING FOR BEV. [PREACHER] FOR BOTH HIS WIFE FELL DEAD AND HE WAS HURT BAD ,NOW LOOKING FOR GOOD WOMAN. [AURORA] HOW SOON WE GO TO OUR HOMES .[PREACHER] AS SOON WOMEN GET WHERE THEY CAN DO THE TRIP. [AURORA] HOW FAR IS IT. [PREACHER] MAYBE TEN MILES] I GOT TO FINE BEN A CAVE FIRST , WILL LOOK TOMORROW. [AURORA] YOU THINK THERE IS ONE? [PREACHER] YES I HAD A VISION OF ONE UP THE CREEK ] HE DID NOT TELL AURORA HE ALSO HAD A VISION FIGHTING A BIG BEAR OR STRANGE CHILD. THIS REMAIN TO BE SEEN. [AURORA] GOOD LOOK FOR IT TOMORROW , WILL YOU BE BACK TOMORROW [PREACHER] YES .SHORT TRIP AND TAKE FEW HOURS GET THERE AND FEW BACK. TATERBUG CAME OVER ,HEY PREACHER YOU BACK HOW WAS TRIP?? PREACHER ] GOT TWO YOUNG MEN FOR THEM. THEY LOOK STRONG AND DUE DROP ALREADY CLAIM ONE AND FEATHER IN THE BREEZE SEEM GOT THE OTHER., AND GOT FOLLOW BY OLDER MAN TO SEE IF HAD A OLDER WOMAN. I INTRODUCE HIM TO BEV. HE TRAIL CAMPING OVER ON SMALL HILL. YA THAT’S GOOD SPOT FOR THAT TATERBUG SAID .. WE BE READY TO MOVE NEXT WEEK I THINK. PREACHER GOOD WE NEED TO KILL BISON DRY MEAT .FOR THE WINTER. TATER WHEN START .. TOMORROW IF YOU CAN KILL ANY HAHAHA ,,TATERBUG I HAVE ONE DOWN BEFORE NOON. PREACHER ]I GOT FINE A 6' CAVE I START WHEN GET BACK. [TATERBUG ]THINK THAT BOW WILL KILL THEM? [PREACHER] IT DROP THEM LIKE LEAVES .ONLY LIMIT IS ARROWS YOU GOT ..NEED MAKE YOU ONE NOW, I FIX THE PROBLEMS TO IT. EVERY BODY NEED A BOW AND ARROWS MAKE HUNTING EASER. TATERBUG I WILL START WORKING ON MY BOW SOON. TATERBUG] WHAT ABOUT THE TEEPEES, [PREACHER] LET THE YOUNG HAVE THEM WE WANT NEED THEM WHEN WE MOVE , ALL WE NEED IS OUR HIDES AND PERSONAL STUFF. TATER BUG GOOD IDEAL .. IRISH CAME OVER] HAD GOOD TRIP PREACHER? YES GOT YOU TWO YOUNG MEN.. THAT GIVE YOU 4 AND YOU ,AND GOT OLDER MAN HE LOOKING AT BEV ,YOU MOST LIKELY HAVE HIM THAT MAKE 6 MEN AND WOMEN AND CHILDREN. [IRISH] SAID OK. [PREACHER] BETTER START TRAINING THEM TO HUNT AND FIGHT .THAT’S YOU GROUP. IRISH] I WILL START TOMORROW. SA BOO HAD FOUND PREACHER AND WAS ATTACKING HIS LEG AND TATERBUG TO. SOON HE SETTLE DOWN AND LAY ED DOWN CLOSE TO PREACHER. IT WAS GETTING DARK BE FORE PREACHER WENT IN TOLD IRISH. LEARN THE BOW LOT EASER TO HUNT WITH IT ..[IRISH LOOK AT PREACHER BOW TO SEE HOW IT MADE. AND THEN A ARROW SEE HOW IT WAS DONE. HE SEEN PREACHER SHOOT STORM CLOUD HE KNOW HOW GOOD IT IS. PREACHER WENT IN SIDE TEE PEE AND SET DOWN ON BED ROLL AND PLAYED WITH BABY'S SA BOO LITTLE DISAPPOINTED HE NOT CENTER PREACHER ATTENTION ,BUT THESE ARE HIS KIDS NOW. [AURORA ]WHEN GOING TO LOOK FOR THE 6 TH CAVE? PREACHER TOMORROW, THEN ALL GOING BE DONE. [AURORA ]GOOD WANT YOU HOME. PREACHER[ SOON YOU BE TIRED OF ME BEEN AROUND. [AURORA] BE GOOD BE AT HOME INSTEAD MOVING ALL TIME AND YOU DOING CHIEF DUTY'S. [PREACHER YES IT WILL BE GETTING LITTLE TIRED ALL THIS. WANT GET IT OVER WITH. WE DONE WELL ONLY PERSON WE LOST IS STORM CLOUD WHICH I KILL. .THAT’S A SHAME HE LET THOSE WOMEN POISON HIS MINE. I NEVER TRIED TO TAKE HIS TRIBE AWAY FROM HIM JUST TRY TO HELP THEM AND BRING UP YOUNG MEN TO BE A FORCE IN THE TRIBE. THOSE WOMEN CONVINCED HIM I WAS . "SHAME", SHAME IT WAS. PREACHER LAY ED DOWN ON HIS ROLL HE KNEW HE HAD LOT WALKING TOMORROW AND A FIGHT WITH A BEAR WHICH HE HASN'T TOLD AURORA . BEST SHE NOT KNOW ,WORRY TO MUCH.
FIRST LIGHT PREACHER WAS UP. GOT HIS BOW AND QUIVER ARROWS AND TOOK HIS BLACK ROCK HATCHET AND KNIFE AND GOT HIS SPEAR AND WENT IN AND GAVE AURORA A HUG AND NOSE RUB AND SAID BE BACK BY LATE AFTER NOON. SHE SAID BE CARE FULL. SHE NOTICE HE WAS ARM TO TEETH AND DID NOT SAY ANY THING, BUT SHE KNEW HE WAS EXPECTING TROUBLE. THIS WORRY HER' HE WAS NOT TELLING ALL TO HER. PREACHER WENT OUT THE FLY OF TEEPEE. [AURORA] GOT UP WENT TO TATERBUG TEE PEE AND GOT TATERBUG UP. [TATERBUG] WHAT, IS UP AURORA? [AURORA] PREACHER GONE TO LOOK FOR NEW CAVE FOR BEN. HE ARM TO TEETH LIKE HE EXPECTING TROUBLE . YOU KNOW HOW HE SEES THING'S TO COME. WOULD YOU FOLLOW HIM AND KEEP EYE OPEN FOR HIM. TATER BUG HOW MUCH HEAD START HE GOT ?[ AURORA] MAYBE 5 MINUTES YOU STILL SEE HIM WALKING UP THE BIG CREEK. TATER BUG PICK UP HIS SPEAR AND TOLD HAPPY JO HE KEEPING A EYE ON PREACHER TODAY AND WENT OUT. PREACHER WAS WALKING UP CREEK BANK AND GOING TO WHERE HE AND BEN FOUND THE CAVES. HE FOUND GOOD SPOT AND FILL UP HIS WATER SKINS , AND NOTICE A MOVEMENT DOWN STREAM ,AND HE ACTED LIKE HE DID NOT NOTICE. FILL UP SKINS AND WENT ON UP STREAM. SOON HE CAME TO BEN IN CREEK THAT WAS BLIND TO SIGHT DOWN STREAM. PREACHER STEP A SIDE AND WEIGHTED AND SOON TATER BUG SHOW UP .[PREACHER] YOU LOST ARE SOMETHING TATERBUG. TATER BUG JUMP LIKE HE SEEN A SNAKE [TATERBUG] YOU TO SNEAKY ,HOW LONG YOU KNEW I WAS BE HINE YOU. PREACHER] LAST 5 MILES. I KNEW YOU GOING BE WITH ME.. AURORA PUT YOU UP TO FOLLOW ME DID SHE. TATERBUG YAP SHE KNOW YOU LOOKING FOR TROUBLE YOU ARM TO TEETH. [PREACHER] WE MAY FINE LOT TROUBLE UP THERE. TATER BUG ] WHAT KIND TROUBLE ? PREACHER] BIG GRIZZLY BEAR .I THINK. TATERBUG AND YOU GOING TO FACE IT ALONG? [PREACHER] AND MY PAST WILL BE BE FORE ME. THIS I HAD A FEELING CAN NOT SEE WHAT IT IS BUT SOMETHING FROM MY PAST BE THERE. TATERBUG ] OK LET'S GO SEE THE PAST ,. SO THEY WENT ON TOGETHER AS FRIENDS SHOULD BE SIDE BY SIDE. AFTER HOUR MORE WALK THEY GOT WHERE THE FIRST CAVE WAS. PREACHER ] THIS ONE PICK OUT FOR ME AND AURORA. FEW HUNDRED FEET MORE SECOND CAVE SHOW IT SELF AND PREACHER THIS IS YOURS AND ONE OVER THERE IS CONDORS, ON OTHER SIDE CREEK.
THEY WORK WAY UP CREEK AND FORTH CAVE WAS THERE AND GUESS THIS IS PLAYFUL AND SOON CAME TO CAVE THIS IS ELSIE AND RED DEER CAVE. HERE PREACHER HAND TATERBUG HIS SPEAR AND TOOK BOW AND NOTCH A ARROW AND SAID STAY CLOSE TO ME HAND ME SPEAR . WHEN I SHOOT THIS . AS WALK UP CREEK FOUND WHAT LOOK LIKE A BODY AND PREACHER ROLL IT OVER AND JUMP BACK. TATER BUG WHO IS IT ? JUNO FROM LAND OF ZOE I THOUGHT HE GOT KILL WHEN EARTHQUAKE MADE LAND FALL INTO WATER .BROTHER OF MY FIRST LOVE. WHO DIED WITH HIM. AS TOOK FEW MORE STEPS COULD SEE WHERE A BEAR DRUG SOME THING OFF TO HIDE ,,[BEARS DO THAT HIDE KILL.] AS PREACHER MOVE TO FOLLOW THE DRAG MARKS THEY HEAR IT BEAR ROWER AND COMING OUT BUSH. PREACHER UP AIM THE BOW AND SWISSSH IT ON WAY HIT GLANCE BLOW OFF HEAD AND WENT INTO RIGHT FRONT SHOULDER AND WENT DEEP. THE BEAR WAS UP ON BACK FEET NOW COMING PREACHER NOTCH SECOND ARROW AND SWISSSSSHH HIT IN CHEST THEM PREACHER DROP BOW AND TOOK SPEAR AS BEAR CAME TO HIM HE LET GO RIGHT IN CHEST AS BEAR FELL FORWARD PREACHER SIDE STEP GET OUT WAY WHEN BEAR FELL PREACHER STUCK HIS HATCHET IN TOP HIS HEAD TO FINISH IT. THE BEAR WAS
DEAD . PREACHER FOLLOW THE DRAG TRAIL THERE THEY FOUND A WOMAN BODY AND PREACHER LOOK AND FELL TO HIS KNEES AND CRY [.RUTH] I THOUGHT YOU WAS DEAD .O MY GOD IF KNEW YOU STILL LIVE I SEARCH FOR YOU. I THOUGHT YOU WENT INTO SEA .I WEIGHED FOR YOU ,YOU NEVER SHOW. PREACHER TOOK A YELLOW MEDALLION FROM HER NECK TOLD TATERBUG I MADE THIS FORM A METAL THEY HAD CALL GOLD. NEVER SEEN ANY MORE OF IT AFTER I LEFT ZOE. I WARN THEM IT WAS GOING TO FALL INTO THE SEA , AND THEY SAID THEY BE RIGHT BE HINE ME .I SAID MEET THEM AT THE MOUNTAIN THEY NEVER SHOW. AS FAR I KNEW I WAS ONLY ONE GOT AWAY. NOW HERE THEY ARE .DEAD . PREACHER HELD UP METAL HE HAD TWO STICK PEOPLE HOLDING HANDS AND TWO PIECES ROPE ENDS TIED IN KNOT. THIS WAS OUR BOND. PREACHER SPOTTED A HEAD PEAKING FROM BUSHES HE WALK CLOSE TO BUSH THEM MADE A MOVE AND GRAB IT .IT WAS A BOY. BOY MADE NO NOISE BUT KICK AND TRY GET AWAY. WHEN HE SEEN TEARS IN PREACHER EYES HE CAM DOWN SOME AND WENT TO SIGN ON HANDS. PEOPLE OF ZOE USE HAND TO TALK WITH NEVER SAID A SOUND ,AS FAR PREACHER KNEW THEY MAKE SOUNDS BUT CHOOSE NOT TO. TOOK WHILE BEFORE 20 YEARS RUST WORE OFF BUT HIS HAND SIGN COMING BACK AND HE FOUND OUT BOY NAME WAS FOGGIE, HE WAS CHILD OF RUTH THEY BEEN LOOKING FOR HIS FATHER. LAST 5 YEARS .. PREACHER] GAVE THE BOY THE GOLD METAL AND PUT IT ON HIS NECK . AND BURIED THE DEAD UNDER PILE OF ROCKS. PREACHER SAID HIS GOOD BY TO HIS FIRST LOVE, .AND WENT TO FINE CAVE SIX SOON THEY CAME UP ON IT AND LOOK IN IT WAS GOOD CAVE .LOOK DOWN ON CREEK GREAT PLACE TO LIVE ,GOOD FISHING HERE .WITH BEAR GONE MORE GAME TOO. PREACHER TURN AND SIGN TO BOY COME ON LIVE WITH ME I WAS FRIEND OF YOUR MOTHER AND UNCLE, BOY YOU EVER BEEN TO ZOE ? PREACHER SIGN BACK SPEND TIME THERE BE FORE. PREACHER AND TATER BUG AND THE BOY TURN BACK TO HOME .THEY DONE WHAT THEY CAME TO DO. PREACHER HAD A BUGGING PROBLEM ,WHO WAS THE BOY FATHER?