Hunting at High Altitude* 



the Rosebud in June of that year. With the other 

 civilian scouts, he was detailed to accompany Reno 

 when that command was sent off to attack the Indian 

 camp from the upper side, while Custer was to attack 

 it from the lower. 



Many of these civilian scouts, as Charles Reynolds, 

 Obadiah, the negro, and Bloody Knife, the Ree, were 

 killed, near the crossing of the Little Big Horn, in 

 the effort to check a charge of the Indians on the 

 panic-stricken troops. Herendeen survived, to make 

 the trip with Colonel Pickett, and in 1910 was work- 

 ing in the Glacier National Park at the office of Major 

 Logan, the superintendent. 



1881. 



64. The respect felt for the bear is common to 

 many North American tribes, and a good example of 

 the feeling toward it and the ceremonial manner in 

 which it is treated is given in the Travels of Alexander 

 Henry, p. 143 (New York, 1809). The Indians of 

 the Northern Plains in old times greatly feared the 

 grizzly bear, though in later days men were willing 

 to attack, fight and kill it, but usually with apologies. 

 The Blackfeet and Cheyenne would make no use of 

 the flesh or hide of the grizzly bear. Women will 

 not cook nor eat its flesh, nor dress the hide. They 

 seem to fear that the spirit of the bear may injure 

 them and usually no persuasion will induce them to 

 undertake the work of tanning a hide. Yet this feel- 

 ing is not universal among the Indians, and in some 



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