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THE DURANGO KID'S

WESTERN DICTIONARYTHIS feature is a western dictionary, to explain for our readers the meaning of western

terms and expressions they may come across in these pages. We will explain about In-

dians and pioneers, gunfighters and cowboys, horses and catties, and so on . . .

TEPEE The tepee was the conical tent.

usually made of buffalo hide,

in which the Plains Indians lived. Very often

these skin-tents were decorated by drawingsthat represented exciting scenes in the lives

of their warrior owners.The manner of raising the te-

pee was to put three poles on the groundtogether, and attach them in such a mannerthat they formed a tripod. Then, by using a

long pole, this arrangement of poles wasraised and braced by other poles. The buf-

falo skins were then stretched across the

poles and sewed along the front so as to

leave a flap opening. The women of the tribe

did this work.Inside the tepee was the fire,

a circle of stones where the fire was made, set

in middle of the tepee so that its fire smokecould go up and out of the opening at the

top of the tepee. Twig and skin beds wereset close to the skin part of the tepee, wherethe men. women and children slept. Rawhidethongs were stretched across the tent, frompole to pole, from which the warriors hungtheir bows, quivers of arrows, war clubs,

lances and knives.

In bad weather, the warriors

often gathered inside their tepees to playgames, to eat and talk over their next hunt-ing party or war party. The women, too.

used these tepees in which to congregate,chattering away, sewing and mending hide

jackets and moccasins, bow cases and arrowquivers, saddles and hackamores.

Usually about 20 poles wereused in constructing the tepee. These poleswere of cedar, spruce, or any straight slimtree. The buffalo covers for these skin-tents

were made in the springtime. Sometimes as

many as fifty buffalo skins were used to makea large lodge.

After the lodge was up, a skin

lining, like curtains, was stretched all aroundthe tepee, to keep out drafts and rain. Thiswas 'often decorated with beads or paintingssimilar to those on the outside of the tepee.

Often a guest bed was put in among the

regular beds of the family. Once in a while

an altar to the Great Spirit was built, as

part of the regular furniture of the tepee.

The door was nothing morethan a skin flap, though some Indians useda blanket.

UNION PACIFIC One of the two rail-

roads that spannedthe continent for the -first time on May 10.

1869. The other railroad that linked its tracks

with theirs was the Central Pacific. The last

tie to be fastened into place to complete the

tremendous job (which held the fascinated

interest of the entire nation) was made of

highly polished California laurel. 8 feet longand 8 inches wide, and held a silver plaquecommemorating the occasion.

This last tie was laid

1085.8 miles west of Omaha, Nebraska.Governors and high

officials of state and federal governments, ex-

ecutives of the railroad and other industries,

men and women were on hand for this great

occasion. Telegraph lines informed all the

world that the United States was now a na-

tion united by railroad tracks, from the goldfields of California to the fishing banks of

Maine.

VIRGINIA CITY Virginia City. Mon-tana, was the site of

rich drama and high tragedy during the

years of the building of the west. In 1863.

five prospectors discovered huge golden nug-gests in its creeks, and men came pouringin to try. their luck. Virginia City grew fromgrassy banks and rocks to a teeming metrop-olis. Gold was the magnet that drew morethan ten thousand men and women to Vir-

ginia City, to "try their luck!"Two of the rich

gold locations were Alder Gulch and Day-light Gulch. The miners used pans andsluiceboxes to tap the streams for the pre-

cious yellow metal.

Inevitably. Virgina

City attracted the lawless element. Henry

Plummet and his gang flourished here, be-

fore the Vigilantes hanged them from some

trees. Plummer was a law official who "went

bau." When the thriving town elected him

sheriff, he put his gun-toting pals in as his

deputies and proceeded to hold up stage-

coaches, rob payrolls and shoot down help-

less people. But the law caught up to himand Henry Plummer and his men paid the

price for their wrongdoing.

WHITE BUFFALO The white buffalo

was actually an al-

bino buffalo, with a pure white hide andreddish eyes. The Plains Indian considered

this white buffalo a sacred object and wouldnever harm one. The Omahas and others

had a white buffalo ceremony.

ZUNI A tribe of Indians inhabiting

the west central parts of NewMexico. They dwell in a pueblo, and seem-

ingly have no other tribal connection with

their neighbors and are found nowhere else.

It is believed that they were victims of the

fierce Navajo and Apache warriors whenthose tribes first came swooping down into

the southwest. Believed to have been a

strong, numerous people at one time, theywere almost exterminated by these savage

invaders of their hot desert country.

Today, the Zuni tribe numbersalmost two thousand people.

ADOBE WALLS This was the scene of

a famous battle be-* tween buffalo hunters and Indians. For someyears before the battle took place\ these buf-

falo hunters went out of towns like DodgeCity, to massacre thousands of buffalos for

their hides. They would leave thousandsupon thousands of these animals dead on the

plains.

Now the Plains In-

dian depended on the buffalo for his foodand clothing, his tepee skins and war shields.

He used its bones, its horns, even its hoofs

for various functions of his daily life. Tosee the buffalo shot down so wantonly—to

the Indians, killing the buffalo was like kill-

ing them!—-drove the Indians mad with fury.

Uniting, the Indiansdecided to attack Adobe Walls and exter-

minate these hide hunters. Adobe Walls wasa depot and trading post, where the huntersand hide men could buy goods and suppliesand sell their hides.

The Indians whoformed the war party against the white menwere Kiowas, Cheyennes, Comanches andArapahos. Having held their war talk nearRed River, they were ready to ride. Leadingthem were such chiefs as Quanah Parker(son of a Comanche war chief and a whitewoman, he was the greatest of all Comanchechiefs) and Isa-tai, Wild Horse and Mow-way. Some of the Kiowa and Cheyenne warchiefs were the famous Satanta, Lone Wolfand Howling Wolf.

The battle itself tookplace in 1874, under a hot June sun. TheIndians galloped in at a fast pace, but thebuffalo hunters—each one of them an expertshot with the big buffalo rifles—were pro-tected by thick adobe walls. Some of thewhite men even had telescopes attached to

their guns, according to the Indian testimonyin later years. Even when the Indians wouldnot be charging, but waiting to renew a

charge, the buffalo hunters would pick off

their horses, killing them at almost in-

credible distances.

Despite their ferocityand their anger, the Indians could not copewith the high-powered rifles in the hands ofsuch expert marksmen. They were driven off.

and Isa-tai. their main war chief QuanahParker was only a young warrior at this

time) was blamed for their crushing defeat.

Among some of thewell-known white men fighting at AdobeWalls among these buffalo hunters were BatMasterson and Wyatt Earp, who were laterto become famous as sheriffs and townmarshals.

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