Mrs.Powell

==== Life on the mountains is very hard you’re hunting for food all day, every day. It’s basically a Do or Die Thing. You either hunt and eat or get eaten by what you were hunting. Another thing you have to do out here to survive is stick together. Be-friend with the Natives, go and greet them but don’t come on to strong because If you do and they see you walking around on their land, not really knowing who you are…you might just find A blow dart In Your neck or A long spear in your back. So if you are trying to come and live like me you might want to think twice. Sleeping outside in the freezing winters and in the dry and humid summers, something or someone might just attack you, unless you like getting chased by bears, wild wolves and other wild animals, (Including the Natives.) ====

Watch Out
==== The Rocky Mountains were I’m positioned now and these hills are deadly. You take one wrong step and, well you know, bye bye. On the bright side being with the Ashley Men makes me feel a lot better about myself. I mean because half of them can’t Even Shoot a Gun let alone load one. We all need to know the basics of this stuff because the Natives are always on our trail. You look left and they are hiding in the bushes, then you look right and there they Are Kneeling down beside the Creek. You have to be ready for anything if you are going to be round here with us. It’s only been about two to three weeks and we are already going low on food. Thirty miles we have been walking and we only stopped when Harris started to complain. Then when we finally found a resting Spot Harris Collapsed, Jim Went to Go to Get Some Fire Wood, And I Wondered off and Shot a Wild Turkey. Then brought it back for a Nice Feast for the Night and its Our First Real Meal in about seven or Eight Days. ====

Long Lost Native?
====I’m currently with these natives who call themselves the Crows, Or Absarokes. They Say That I Am One Of Their Long Lost Relatives. They Say That I am the son of a Man Named Big Bowls Who Had Been Kidnapped Years Before. Maybe I Am… I did not know that I was kidnapped and was raised by Complete Strangers. They Named Me Morning Star, And Had Me Marry woman Name Still Water. It is considered A Great Honor to marry her and now I’m A “Well-Respected Chief”. ====

Absorokes’ marriages are quite different from what I am accustomed to. Both Men and women are allowed to enter into more than one marriage. I, myself, have many wives and is currently interested in having another wife. Her Name is Pine Leaf (Bar-Chee-Am-Pe). But she refused my proposal because she said She Will Marry No Man until She Kills One Hundred Enemies to Avenge Her Brother’s Death.

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