Scott's Bluff--Independence Rock and its Legend--Chimney Rock--
Crazy Woman's Creek--Laramie Plains--Legends and Traditions about
the Great Salt Lake--Early Surveys.

CHAPTER XI. INDIAN TRIBES ON THE TRAIL. The Indian Tribes of the
Salt Lake Trail--The Otoes--I-e-tan--Blue-Eyes shot by I-e-tan--
The Pawnees--Their Tribal Mark--Legends and Traditions--Human
Sacrifices--Folk-lore.

CHAPTER XII. SIOUX AND THEIR TRADITIONS. The Sioux Nation--Cause of
their Hatred for the Whites--A Chief of the Brule Sioux tells a Story
--The Scarred-Arms--Story of the Six Sioux and the Mysterious Woman--
The Place of the Death Song--Wa-shu-pa and Ogallalla--Indian Fight at
Ash Hollow--Indian Tradition of a Flood.

CHAPTER XIII. THE CROWS. The Crows--Council at Fort Philip Kearny
in July, 1866--A-ra-poo-ash--Jim Beckwourth in a Fight between Crows
and Blackfeet--Beckwourth and the Great Medicine Kettle--The Missionary
and the Crows--The Legend of the Blind Men--The Pis-kun.

CHAPTER XIV. FOLK-LORE OF BLACKFEET. Folk-lore of Blackfeet--
The Lost Children--The Wolf-Man--The Utes--Massacre of Major
Thornburgh's Command on the White River--The Great Chief Ouray--
Piutes--Their Theories of the Heavens--The Big Medicine Springs--
Closed Hand--Man afraid of his Horses--No Knife--Sitting Bull--
Spotted Tail.

CHAPTER XV. SIOUX WAR OF 1863. Sioux War of 1863--Spotted Tail--
George P. Belden's Account--Sergeants Hiles and Rolla--Belden and
Nelson have an Adventure--Belden maps the Country--Guarding Ben