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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license - - -Title: The War-Trail Fort - Further Adventures of Thomas Fox and Pitamakan - -Author: James Willard Schultz - -Illustrator: George Varian - -Release Date: July 13, 2013 [EBook #43210] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE WAR-TRAIL FORT *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Bergquist, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) - - - - - - -</pre> - - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 43210 ***</div> <div class="figleft"> <img src="images/cover.jpg" alt=""/> @@ -573,9 +531,9 @@ take his place, and Pitamakan was free to come with us. On the last day of May the second steamboat of the season tied up at the river-bank in front of the fort, and in the afternoon of the following day we went aboard it with our outfit and were off upon our new adventure. The -outfit comprised ten engagés, all of them with their wives, women of the +outfit comprised ten engagĂ©s, all of them with their wives, women of the Pikuni, several of whom had children; six work-horses and two heavy -wagons; three ordinary saddle-horses, property of the engagés, and three +wagons; three ordinary saddle-horses, property of the engagĂ©s, and three fast buffalo-runners, one of which was Is-spai-u, the Spaniard, the most noted, the most valuable buffalo-horse in all the Northwest; eleven Indian lodges, one to each family; tools of all kinds; some provisions; @@ -597,7 +555,7 @@ coyotes, and now and then a grizzly.</p> <p>All too quickly we sped down the river, which is swift and narrow here, and at night tied up at the mouth of Cow Creek, where twelve years -later a small party of us from Fort Benton were to fight the Nez Percés, +later a small party of us from Fort Benton were to fight the Nez PercĂ©s, just before General Miles rounded them up. This was the Middle Creek—Stahk-tsi-ki-e-tuk-tai—of the Blackfeet, so named because it rises in the depression between the Bear Paw and the Little Rocky @@ -643,7 +601,7 @@ went over to the Musselshell and bathed, and then heard Tsistsaki calling us to come and eat.</p> <p>"Now, then, you youngsters," my uncle said to us when we were seated, -"the engagés have their instructions, and here are yours. You are not to +"the engagĂ©s have their instructions, and here are yours. You are not to lift a hand toward the building of this fort, for I have three other uses for you. You are to take good care of the horses, keep the camp well supplied with meat, and be ever on the lookout for war parties."</p> @@ -668,7 +626,7 @@ fault of ours!"</p> <h3>A HOSTILE TRIBE LEAVES FOOTPRINTS</h3> -<p>By the time Pitamakan and I had finished breakfast the engagés had +<p>By the time Pitamakan and I had finished breakfast the engagĂ©s had hitched up the teams and gone to cut logs, and my uncle was marking out the site for the fort on level ground just behind our barricade. He had drawn the plan for it while we were coming down the river. It was to be @@ -796,7 +754,7 @@ work!" said my uncle disgustedly.</p> <p>"Dropped right where he fired it," I hazarded; and there it was found.</p> <p>"Wal, now, me, I call Louis's hittin' that hoss a plumb miracle!" -exclaimed an American engagé, Illinois Joe, so called because he was +exclaimed an American engagĂ©, Illinois Joe, so called because he was always talking about the glories of that State. "To my certain knowledge that there is the fust time Louis ever come nigh hittin' what he aimed to kill!"</p> @@ -808,14 +766,14 @@ thought that we could not possibly guard the men from sudden surprise by the enemy.</p> <p>"You will do the best you can, and that is all I ask from you," he -answered. "From now on, one of the engagés shall stand guard while the +answered. "From now on, one of the engagĂ©s shall stand guard while the others work, and I will take a turn at it myself. You have meat up there? Take a team and wagon and bring it in."</p> <p>We had the meat in camp by two o'clock; then my uncle advised us to ride out upon discovery. As Pitamakan's runner would be of no service for some time to come, I borrowed Is-spai-u and let him have my fast horse. -We could, of course, have ridden the scrub horses of the engagés, but +We could, of course, have ridden the scrub horses of the engagĂ©s, but did not care to trust our lives to their slow running in case we should be surprised by a war party.</p> @@ -929,12 +887,12 @@ in the whole Northwest, so far as was known, and the success of it was owing more to the swiftness and endurance of Is-spai-u than to the skill of my uncle with the bow. The reputation of the black horse was established. Through visiting Kootenay Indians it spread to all the -west-side tribes, the Kalispels, Nez Percés, and Snakes. When bands from +west-side tribes, the Kalispels, Nez PercĂ©s, and Snakes. When bands from the Blackfoot tribes came into the fort at different times in order to trade, the first request of the chiefs and warriors was for a sight of the wonderful animal.</p> -<p>In time our engagés took word of him to our different forts along the +<p>In time our engagĂ©s took word of him to our different forts along the river, and thus all the other tribes, Sioux, Assiniboins, Crows, Crees, and Yanktonnais, came to know about him. Deputations from all the tribes that were at peace with the Blackfeet came to the fort and made fabulous @@ -1527,11 +1485,11 @@ horses should have ample time to eat before we brought them into the stockade for the night. Then, while waiting for our evening meal, my uncle, Abbott, Pitamakan, and I held a war council out by the river-bank, where the men would not overhear our talk. They were a -timid lot, French engagés all of them, and we did not want them to +timid lot, French engagĂ©s all of them, and we did not want them to suspect how serious we thought our situation to be.</p> <p>"The older I grow the less sense I have! I should have known better than -to come down here with these few timid engagés to build a fort upon the +to come down here with these few timid engagĂ©s to build a fort upon the most traveled war trail in the country," said my uncle. "I should have had ten—yes, twenty—more men. I shall send by the next up-river boat for all the men that can be engaged in Fort Benton."</p> @@ -1943,7 +1901,7 @@ us."</p> <p>Abbott was asleep, having been on guard all night. Pitamakan and I soon lay down and slept. At supper-time we got up and had a refreshing bath in the river, where Abbott joined us, and toward dusk we three went to -guard the grove during the night. My uncle arranged with the engagés to +guard the grove during the night. My uncle arranged with the engagĂ©s to stand watch in the barricade by turns, for he was completely worn out by his day-and-night work and had to have one night of complete rest.</p> @@ -1970,7 +1928,7 @@ camp. Pitamakan and I rode down into the grove to notify my uncle to have a man follow us with a team and wagon, for we intended to make a quick killing. Sneaking through the timber close to a herd of buffaloes and chasing them across the flat, we killed four fat ones. We hurriedly -butchered them and helped the engagés to load the meat upon the wagon; +butchered them and helped the engagĂ©s to load the meat upon the wagon; then we remounted our horses.</p> <p>Off to the south lay country unknown to me. "Come! Let us ride out upon @@ -2055,7 +2013,7 @@ sweating horses in front of the barricade just before sunset.</p> to be heading this way," I replied, and told him and the men all about our meeting them, while Pitamakan answered the women's questions.</p> -<p>When I had finished, the engagés, Abbott excepted, of course, wore +<p>When I had finished, the engagĂ©s, Abbott excepted, of course, wore pretty long faces. They all went into Henri Robarre's lodge as we, with Abbott, answered Tsistsaki's call to supper.</p> @@ -2090,8 +2048,8 @@ that effect."</p> <p>"Sare, honneur, we hare no sign eet ze pap' for fight heem, les sauvages. We no sign eet ze pap' for work all days and watch for les -sacrés sauvages hall ze nights. Pretty soon we hall gets keel, m'sieu'. -We hare no pour le combat; we hare jus' pauvre cordeliers, engagés in ze +sacrĂ©s sauvages hall ze nights. Pretty soon we hall gets keel, m'sieu'. +We hare no pour le combat; we hare jus' pauvre cordeliers, engagĂ©s in ze forts. M'sieu', you weel let hus go?"</p> <p>I knew by the set expression of my uncle's face what his answer was to @@ -2101,13 +2059,13 @@ hands. They charged upon their men, crying, "Cowards! You shall not desert our chief! Stay in the lodge and do our work; we'll build the fort! Give us your clothing; you shall wear our gowns!"</p> -<p>Never shall I forget that scene! The poor engagés shrank from the +<p>Never shall I forget that scene! The poor engagĂ©s shrank from the attack. Wild-eyed, they begged the women to desist, all the while getting painful whacks from their sticks and the most terrible tongue-lashing that could be given in the Blackfoot language! My uncle and Abbott laughed at their plight, and Pitamakan and I actually rolled upon the ground in a perfect frenzy of joy. When, at last, we sat up and -wiped our eyes, there were the engagés heading for their lodges, and +wiped our eyes, there were the engagĂ©s heading for their lodges, and each one was followed by his woman, still shrieking out her candid opinion of him.</p> @@ -2209,7 +2167,7 @@ firing-place," said Abbott.</p> <p>There was here, as in a number of places round the barricade, a brush-covered space through which the six-pounder could be pointed. The -women of the engagés were in their lodges, and Tsistsaki whispered to us +women of the engagĂ©s were in their lodges, and Tsistsaki whispered to us that she had not told them of her discovery for fear some of them would make an outcry.</p> @@ -2223,7 +2181,7 @@ here and have a look at the country."</p> <p>We halted and looked first to the north, then down to the grove, from which both teams were emerging with wagons loaded with logs. There were -three engagés with the outfit. I pointed to them. "What would they do if +three engagĂ©s with the outfit. I pointed to them. "What would they do if they knew what is ahead of them?"</p> <p>"They would fly! Their fear would be so great that it would give them @@ -2338,7 +2296,7 @@ companions ran straight away from us. At that all the others sprang from their places of concealment like so many jumping-jacks, and those with guns fired at us before they turned to run. When we fired at them three went down at once, and two more staggered on a little way before they -fell. At that our engagés took heart and yelled defiance at the enemy as +fell. At that our engagĂ©s took heart and yelled defiance at the enemy as they hastily began reloading their guns. I heard Abbott calling himself names for having failed to kill the man behind the brush that he had fired into.</p> @@ -2365,7 +2323,7 @@ they had turned up into the coulee and were gone from our sight.</p> <p>"Well," my uncle exclaimed, "I guess that settles our trouble with that outfit!" Almost at the same moment a heated argument arose among our -engagés, every one of whom asserted that he had killed an enemy. "Here, +engagĂ©s, every one of whom asserted that he had killed an enemy. "Here, you, the way for you all to settle your claims is to go out there and show which one of the enemy you each downed!"</p> @@ -2373,7 +2331,7 @@ show which one of the enemy you each downed!"</p> there, perhaps to face a wounded and desperate man. Pitamakan stared at them, muttered something about cowardly dog-faces, and leaped over the barricade. Abbott, my uncle, Tsistsaki, and I followed his move, but we -had gone out some distance before the engagés began to follow, moving +had gone out some distance before the engagĂ©s began to follow, moving slowly well in our rear.</p> <p>We, of course, did not proceed without due caution. The very first one @@ -2386,21 +2344,21 @@ dropped when I fired, but I cannot count coup upon him."</p> <p>"Why not?" Tsistsaki asked.</p> -<p>"Because of that!" he replied, turning and pointing to the engagés. +<p>"Because of that!" he replied, turning and pointing to the engagĂ©s. They had come to the body of the Crow and three were pretending to have fired the bullet that laid the enemy low. "I cannot prove that I killed him," he added sorrowfully.</p> -<p>Now the three engagés who had been left on guard in the grove came to +<p>Now the three engagĂ©s who had been left on guard in the grove came to us, out of breath and excited, and my uncle promptly ordered them back -to their places. We made the round of the dead, the engagés taking their +to their places. We made the round of the dead, the engagĂ©s taking their weapons and various belongings; then we went back to the barricade for dinner, first, however, watering and picketing the hungry horses. Later -on, when the teams were again hitched, the engagés drove about and +on, when the teams were again hitched, the engagĂ©s drove about and gathered up the dead and consigned them to the depths of the big river.</p> <p>That evening as Pitamakan, Abbott, and I were preparing to go down into -the grove for our nightly watch the engagés were celebrating our victory +the grove for our nightly watch the engagĂ©s were celebrating our victory of the day. They had all assembled in Henri Robarre's lodge, singing quaint songs, boasting of their bravery and accurate shooting, and calling loudly for the women to prepare a little feast, for they were @@ -2463,7 +2421,7 @@ put in here in answer to your hail. So to kind of play even the low-down sneak begins to blow about the battle you are expectin' to have with the Assiniboins. Yes, sir, makes a regular holler about it as soon as his boat ties up in front of the fort. Well, I guess you know them French -engagés. The minute they hear about the Assiniboins Carroll and Steell +engagĂ©s. The minute they hear about the Assiniboins Carroll and Steell can't hire nary a one of 'em for you."</p> <p>"Well, now, that Wiggins man is a real friendly kind of chap, isn't he?" @@ -2508,7 +2466,7 @@ night and laughed when we said that we thought three men were needed to guard it.</p> <p>We three were only too glad to let them have their way. However, we -relieved the engagés from watch duty in the barricade, dividing the +relieved the engagĂ©s from watch duty in the barricade, dividing the night between us, and they were therefore in good shape the next morning for a day of real work. Beginning that day, they were all ordered to cut and haul logs while the rest of us performed what guard duty had been @@ -2760,7 +2718,7 @@ them.</p> <p>Cramped as we were for space within the barricade, Tsistsaki insisted that the old men should have a lodge of their own. The women set up one -of the lodges of the engagés, and all contributed to its furnishings of +of the lodges of the engagĂ©s, and all contributed to its furnishings of robes and blankets and to its little pile of firewood beside the door; then the widow of poor Louis volunteered to cook their meals. Thus were the ancient ones made perfectly comfortable. At noon of that day, when @@ -2769,7 +2727,7 @@ him that they wanted to help him not only in the coming fight with the cut-throats, but in other ways as well. Old though they were, their eyesight was still good; therefore they would do all the daytime guard duty, three of them in the grove and two in camp. We were glad enough to -accept their offer, for, as the engagés were now entirely relieved from +accept their offer, for, as the engagĂ©s were now entirely relieved from all share in our constant watch for approaching enemies, the work on the fort progressed rapidly.</p> @@ -3159,7 +3117,7 @@ Lame Wolf tapped him on the head with the barrel of his fuke and counted coup on him. He claimed it, no doubt, because he had fired the first shot into his carcass."</p> -<p>"And what did the engagés do?" Pitamakan asked.</p> +<p>"And what did the engagĂ©s do?" Pitamakan asked.</p> <p>"What did they do! You should have heard Henri Robarre praying to be saved. The others joined in and ran about among the lodges, carrying @@ -3174,14 +3132,14 @@ a way they will not soon forget," said my uncle.</p> <p>We washed and had breakfast while the old men still sang their quaint song of victory. Afterwards, when we went out, old Lame Wolf was cutting the claws from his coup. He did not want the hide, nor did we; the hair -was the old, sunburned, and ragged winter coat. So the engagés hitched +was the old, sunburned, and ragged winter coat. So the engagĂ©s hitched an unwilling team to the carcass, dragged it to the edge of the river-bank, and rolled it into the water. They all then went down into the grove, and the Tennessee Twins came up from it for their breakfast and their sleep. The night had been quiet down there. One of them had come to learn the cause of the firing in camp and had gone back, my uncle said, almost bursting with anger at the cowardly and disgraceful -exhibition the engagés had made of themselves.</p> +exhibition the engagĂ©s had made of themselves.</p> <p>That day Pitamakan and I had Tsistsaki waken us shortly before noon, and when my uncle and Abbott returned to the lodge for dinner we proposed @@ -3282,7 +3240,7 @@ once more and signed, "What shall you do?"</p> ready to fire," the old man concluded, and the two went out to their evening meal.</p> -<p>When supper was over, my uncle called the engagés together, told them +<p>When supper was over, my uncle called the engagĂ©s together, told them the old Mandans believed that the enemy might attack us during the night, and ordered them to look well to their guns. He then called the names of those he wanted for extra guard duty, and of those who were to @@ -3373,7 +3331,7 @@ cannon out!"</p> <p>The cannon was in the center of the barricade, loaded with trade balls, fused, and covered with a piece of canvas to protect it from the weather. As Abbott, the Twins, and I ran to it, Pitamakan hurried on to -our lodge to rouse my uncle; and the engagés, who had been on watch with +our lodge to rouse my uncle; and the engagĂ©s, who had been on watch with the Mandans, quietly slipped round awakening the inmates of the other lodges. I flipped the cover on the cannon, and, just as we got it into the passageway, the fight opened with shots and yells on the west side @@ -3421,7 +3379,7 @@ Lem.</p> <p>"What say they?" Pitamakan asked me, and I told him.</p> -<p>The Mandans and the engagés now came to us from the other side of the +<p>The Mandans and the engagĂ©s now came to us from the other side of the stockade, with the women and children trailing after them.</p> <p>"The cut-throats ran down over the river-bank," old Lame Wolf signed to @@ -3637,7 +3595,7 @@ our little camp of besieged people.</p> <p>At noon we halted for a short rest. The chiefs at once gathered in a circle and began to plan just what should be done at the mouth of the -Musselshell; that is, if Far Thunder and his engagés still held the +Musselshell; that is, if Far Thunder and his engagĂ©s still held the barricade. Pitamakan and I told how they would be suffering from want of water and urged that we ride as straight as we could to their relief.</p> @@ -3801,7 +3759,7 @@ and we left the bank and ran toward the barricade.</p> <p>There at the passageway a strange sight met our eyes. My uncle, with parched lips and bloodshot eyes, stood guard with his rifle over Tsistsaki, who doled out a cupful of water to one after another of the -engagés, while they, crazed from want of it, alternately called him bad +engagĂ©s, while they, crazed from want of it, alternately called him bad names and cried and begged for more. Now and then one of them ran to scale the barricade and go to the river, only to be forced back by Abbott and the Twins.</p> @@ -3817,7 +3775,7 @@ voice.</p> <p>"Through you we survive!" Tsistsaki said to us, and we could barely hear her strangely pitched voice.</p> -<p>Behind the engagés were their women and children; they, it seemed, had +<p>Behind the engagĂ©s were their women and children; they, it seemed, had been served first from the two buckets of water that Abbott had brought from the river as soon as the bank was clear of the enemy. I looked over the little crowd, missed the Mandans and asked for them.</p> @@ -3830,7 +3788,7 @@ Robarre, who was begging wildly for just a little more of the water. Turning, she held a cupful up to my uncle.</p> <p>"No! You first," he signed. She drank and then he did. Then his voice -came back to him and he hoarsely roared to the engagés: "Now, then, you +came back to him and he hoarsely roared to the engagĂ©s: "Now, then, you all get back out of my sight until you are called to drink again! I am mighty sick of you and your contemptible whinings!"</p> @@ -3852,7 +3810,7 @@ have a coup to count down there in the timber."</p> <p>Abbott and the women came to the head of the water trail with the horses and began relieving their torment with a bucketful all round. Back in -the barricade we could hear the engagés begging the Twins to turn them +the barricade we could hear the engagĂ©s begging the Twins to turn them loose. The five old Mandans came up from the water and one by one gravely shook my hand.</p> @@ -3864,7 +3822,7 @@ setting of this sun. And here you are! The sun is good to us!"</p> <p>I had no more than told my uncle and Tsistsaki briefly of our ride in quest of the Pikuni and listened to a short account of their trials with -the thirst-crazed engagés when in the gathering dusk White Wolf and +the thirst-crazed engagĂ©s when in the gathering dusk White Wolf and Heavy Runner and the other chiefs came up to us. They all knew the old Mandans and affectionately greeted them. Tsistsaki ran to her brother, White Wolf, and embraced him and cried a little with joy at seeing him @@ -3875,7 +3833,7 @@ themselves it will not be my funeral!"</p> <p>They made a wild onset upon the bucket of water that the Twins were guarding, upset it, and with strange, wild cries leaped the barricade and rushed to the river. They were just animals, those old-time French -Creole engagés! Perhaps it would be better and a little nearer the truth +Creole engagĂ©s! Perhaps it would be better and a little nearer the truth to say that they were just irresponsible children of man's size.</p> <p>Tsistsaki started a little fire in our lodge; then we all gathered in @@ -3932,14 +3890,14 @@ that some of our friends were caring for them.</p> <p>On the following morning every member of our little party of fort-builders awoke with the feeling that our troubles were ended. In -honor of the occasion my uncle gave the engagés a holiday and turned +honor of the occasion my uncle gave the engagĂ©s a holiday and turned the horses out to graze wherever they would. The chiefs remained with us; some of the warriors went back to meet the oncoming caravan of the Pikuni; others scattered to hunt, and still others remained in the grove, resting, singing, talking over with one another every detail of the battle.</p> -<p>In the afternoon Pitamakan and I saddled the three engagés' horses and +<p>In the afternoon Pitamakan and I saddled the three engagĂ©s' horses and rode with Tsistsaki to meet the Pikuni, which we did about three miles out on the plain. Long before we met the long caravan we could hear the people singing, laughing, rejoicing over the great news that had been @@ -3957,12 +3915,12 @@ We cannot fail to make a big trade here. I can hardly wait for the morrow to resume work upon the fort. You must bear a hand at it when you and Pitamakan are not getting meat for camp."</p> -<p>I did "bear a hand." The engagés, relieved of all fear of the enemy and +<p>I did "bear a hand." The engagĂ©s, relieved of all fear of the enemy and anxious to move into snug, log-walled quarters, worked as I had never seen them work before. When in due time the Yellowstone II arrived with our large shipment of goods, we had a long stock-room and a trade-room ready to receive it; and in the early part of October the fort was -completed, bastions and all, and the engagés were told to get in the +completed, bastions and all, and the engagĂ©s were told to get in the winter firewood. At about that time the other tribes of the Blackfeet and our allies, the Gros Ventres, arrived and went into camp at various points along the Musselshell and the Missouri. Crow Foot, chief of the @@ -4009,387 +3967,6 @@ trade, are we?"</p> CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS<br /> U. S. 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