58 THE ADVENTURES OF 



CHAPTER VII. 



A CHANGE A NIGHT WITH THE WOLVES 



BLACK-TAILED DCER FEROCIOUS ANIMALS 



BACK TO THE PLAINS. 



Not long after the occurrences mentioned 

 in the preceeding chapter I moved about a 

 liundred miles south, on what is called Silver 

 Lake. I was compelled to leave on account ol^ 

 the Indians chasing all the buffalo out. They 

 chase them on horseback, and drive them 

 sometimes as far as two hundred miles. 



Silver Lake is situated near the head of 

 Pawnee River,between this stream and '^ White 

 Woman" Creek, in a large cane-brake. The 

 reader may perhaps smile at some of the queer 

 names aoplied to streams and such other nat- 

 ural objects. A great many were named by 

 the Indians, who always name them from 

 some occurrence of the locality, or from some 

 other similar suggestion. 



''White Woman" Creek derives Its name 

 from a rather sad occurrence, which I will 



