'Hunting at High Altitude* 



been quite fully treated by Dr. H. C. Yarrow in his 

 paper on Mortuary Customs, published as part of the 

 First Annual Report of the Bur.of Amer. Ethn. in 1881. 

 The Indians of the plains had no foolish prejudices 

 against being eaten by animals. Brave men often 

 expressed the hope that when they died their bodies 

 might be left out on the prairie where the birds and 

 the animals might feed on them, and they might thus 

 be scattered far and wide over the prairie. (See 

 Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk Tales, p. 46.) 



19. George Clendenin, Jr., the son of George Clen- 

 denin, was born in Washington, D. C., about 1843-44. 

 His father was an old soldier, after the Civil War in 

 charge of the Rock Creek Cemetery near Washington. 



Colonel Clendenin came to Montana in 1869 or 1870 

 and to Fort Benton in 1870. He was a man of high 

 ideals, who believed that he could make money in 

 trading with Indians without carrying a stock of 

 liquor. He purchased from T. C. Power & Bro. a 

 stock of goods for Indian trade and established a 

 trading post at the mouth of the Musselshell. In 1871 

 he sold to L. M. Black an interest in the business, and 

 T. C. Power retired. The fact probably is that Power 

 furnished the goods on credit and Black took his in- 

 terest, though the business was probably done in Clen- 

 denin's name. In the spring of 1872 Black brought 

 a suit for dissolution of the copartnership, and the 

 litigation continued until 1877. Clendenin took his 

 stock of goods from Benton down the river in Macki- 

 naw boats. The concern's chief trade was for buffalo 

 robes. 



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