PART ONE THE WARRIOR
I. THE LOVE OF ANTELOPE
Upon a hanging precipice atop of the Eagle Scout Butte there appeared
a motionless and solitary figure--almost eagle-like he perched! The people
in the camp below saw him, but none looked at him long. They turned
their heads quickly away with a nervous tingling, for the height above the
plains was great. Almost spirit-like among the upper clouds the young
warrior sat immovable.
It was Antelope. He was fasting and seek- ing a sign from the "Great
Mystery," for such was the first step of the young and ambitious Sioux
[who wished to be a noted warrior among his people.
He is a princely youth, among the wild Sioux, who hunts for his tribe
and not for him- self! His voice is soft and low at the camp- fire of his
nation, but terror-giving in the field of battle. Such was Antelope\'s
reputation. The more he sought the "Great Mystery" in solitude, the
more gentle and retiring he be- came, and in the same proportion his
courage and manliness grew. None could say that he was not a kind son
and a good hunter, for he had already passed the "two-arrow-to-kill," his
buffalo examination.