EXPERIENCES OF A TRAPPER AND HUNTER 
FROM YOUTH TO OLD AGE 
By T. ALEXANDER 
CHAPTER XIIT. 
The time had arrived when Bill and I were to start for the Wich- 
itaw country. T really hated to leave the Shawnees as they were a 
splendid tribe of Indians. The morning we left they were most of 
them at the village. Big Jim said to me: “The Shawnees have 
given you a name,” and I asked him what it was and he said, “Sque- 
agochathe.” 1 asked him what the English interpretation was, and 
he said that it was “Red Fox.” I told him that was a fine name—“hard 
to catch/’ he said. From that day on I was known among the Shaw¬ 
nees as “Squeagochathe.” 
Bill and I told our friends good-by, promising to return some 
time. The squaws had prepared us a lunch to carry along, and some 
pieces of jerked deer. The Shawnees were at that time about half¬ 
way between the North and South Canadian Rivers. Bill and I made 
for the South Canadian as Bill thought there Avas a good cattle trail that 
ran up the river. Within four hours’ ride we reached the South 
Canadian; there we struck camp for our noon lunch; afterwards we 
i ode up the river until about night, where we came to a cattle ranch 
which consisted of three trail wagons and a couple of tents and a 
corral. As we rode up two cowboys said, “Get down and come in ” 
This we did. I saw at once Bill felt at home as he had asked the 
cowboy if this was Bill McCline \s cattle; they said they were and 
while we were there old Bill McCline rode up. “Hello, Bill Parrish ” 
he called, “what blizzard blowed you up here?” “No blizzard just 
having a good time,” Bill replied. “You want a job?” “Nope/1 
have one Shake hands with my friend, Alexander.” We shook 
hands and sat down to visit a few minutes. McCline asked where 
we were going, and what we were doing. We told him nothing and 
no place m particular, just wanted to see the territory and were tak¬ 
ing our time until August to do it. He said. “I was up on the Cob 
Creek about a week ago and saw a big bunch of buffalo, and lots of 
fZL-//TZ/ k- 0U b0yS ccmld have a S°od time hunting up 
tlnre. Bill told him we were planning on going over to the Wich- 
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