SHOSHONE LAND 



but Winnenap' who could tell and make 

 it worth telling about Shoshone Land. 



And Winnenap' will not any more. He 

 died, as do most medicine-men of the 

 Paiutes. 



Where the lot falls when the campoodie 

 chooses a medicine-man there it rests. It 

 is an honor a man seldom seeks but must 

 wear, an honor with a condition. When 

 three patients die under his ministrations, 

 the medicine-man must yield his life and 

 his office. Wounds do not count ; broken 

 bones and bullet holes the Indian can 

 understand, but measles, pneumonia, and 

 smallpox are witchcraft. Winnenap' was 

 medicine-man for fifteen years. Besides 

 considerable skill in healing herbs, he used 

 his prerogatives cunningly. It is permit- 

 ted the medicine-man to decline the case 

 when the patient has had treatment from 

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