The Sheep Eaters
()
About this ebook
Related to The Sheep Eaters
Related ebooks
The Sheep Eaters Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Legends of San Francisco Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Story of Waitstill Baxter Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRogue River Feud: A Western Story Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Among the Tibetans Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHiwa: A Tale of Ancient Hawaii Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Sacred Valley: Book Three of the Rusty Sabin Saga Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHiwa: A Tale of Ancient Hawaii Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Birch Bark Books of Simon Pokagon Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Ship in the Desert Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsKirus Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMehalah: A story of the salt marshes Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Legends of San Francisco Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPictures of Sweden Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHeroes of the Realm Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGoodbird the Indian: His Story Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Valley of Silent Men Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Indian Legends of the White Mountains Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Wagoner Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTime of the Eagle Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Adventures of an Angler in Canada, Nova Scotia and the United States Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNo Man's Land Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGullstruck Island Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Old Mission Stories of California Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNameless River Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAlaska Days with John Muir Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Crazy Horse Suite Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Man Who Killed the Deer: A Novel of Pueblo Indian Life Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Reference For You
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Everything Sign Language Book: American Sign Language Made Easy... All new photos! Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Spy the Lie: Former CIA Officers Teach You How to Detect Deception Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Learn Sign Language in a Hurry: Grasp the Basics of American Sign Language Quickly and Easily Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Emotion Thesaurus (Second Edition): A Writer's Guide to Character Expression Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/51001 First Lines Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Outlining Your Novel Workbook: Step-by-Step Exercises for Planning Your Best Book Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Bored Games: 100+ In-Person and Online Games to Keep Everyone Entertained Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Everything Essential Spanish Book: All You Need to Learn Spanish in No Time Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Show, Don't Tell: How to Write Vivid Descriptions, Handle Backstory, and Describe Your Characters’ Emotions Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5THE EMOTIONAL WOUND THESAURUS: A Writer's Guide to Psychological Trauma Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Mythology 101: From Gods and Goddesses to Monsters and Mortals, Your Guide to Ancient Mythology Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/51,001 Facts that Will Scare the S#*t Out of You: The Ultimate Bathroom Reader Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Robert's Rules For Dummies Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Legal Words You Should Know: Over 1,000 Essential Terms to Understand Contracts, Wills, and the Legal System Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Useless Sexual Trivia: Tastefully Prurient Facts About Everyone's Favorite Subject Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Art 101: From Vincent van Gogh to Andy Warhol, Key People, Ideas, and Moments in the History of Art Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for The Sheep Eaters
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
The Sheep Eaters - William Alonzo Allen
William Alonzo Allen
The Sheep Eaters
Published by Good Press, 2022
goodpress@okpublishing.info
EAN 4064066176440
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER I
Table of Contents
AN EXTINCT MOUNTAIN TRIBE
The Sheep Eaters were a tribe of Indians that became extinct about fifty years ago, and what remaining history there is of this tribe is inscribed upon granite walls of rock in Wyoming and Montana, and in a few defiles and canyons, together with a few arrows and tepees remaining near Black Canyon, whose stream empties into the Big Horn River. Bald Mountain still holds the great shrine wheel, where the twenty-eight tribes came semi-annually to worship the sun, and in the most inaccessible places may still be found the remains of a happy people. Small in stature and living among the clouds, this proud race lived a happy life far removed from all other Indians.
The Shoshones seem to be a branch of the Sheep Eaters who afterwards intermarried with the Mountain Crows, a tall race of people who gave to the Shoshones a taller and better physique. From what can be gleaned, the Sheep Eater women were most beautiful, but resembled the Alaskan Indians in their shortness of stature.
These people drew their name from their principal article of food, Mountain Sheep, although, when winter set in, elk and deer were often killed when coming down before a driving snow storm.
Their home life was simple. They lived in the grassy parks of the mountains which abounded in springs of fresh water, and were surrounded by evergreens and quaking asps and sheltered by granite walls rising from fifty to a thousand feet high. Their tepees were different from those of all other tribes, and were not covered with rawhide but thatched with quaking asp bark, and covered with a gum and glue made from sheep's hoofs. Another variety were covered with pitch pine gum.
WHEEL OF THE HOLY SHRINE, BALD MOUNTAIN, WYO.
In this manner lived the twenty-eight tribes of Sheep Eaters, carving their history on granite walls, building their homes permanently among the snowy peaks where they held communion with the sun, and worshipping at their altar on Bald Mountain, which seems likely to remain until the Sheep Eaters are awakened by Gabriel's trumpet on the morning of the resurrection.
Never having been taught differently, they believed in gods, chief of which was the sun, and consecrated their lives to them; and their eternal happiness will be complete in the great Happy Region where all is bright and warm. The great wheel, or shrine, of this people is eighty feet across the face, and has twenty-eight spokes, representing the twenty-eight tribes of their race. At the center or hub there is a house of stone, where Red Eagle held the position of chief or leader of all the tribes. Facing the north-east was the house of the god of plenty, and on the south-east faced the house of the goddess of beauty; and due west was the beautifully built granite cave dedicated to the sun god, and from this position the services were supposed to be directed by him. Standing along the twenty-eight spokes were the worshippers, chanting their songs of praise to the heavens, while their sun dial on earth was a true copy of the sun.
A short time