Locate Milk River.

7. Above the Piegan lodges,

Piegans—one of the principal divisions of the Blackfoot tribe of Indians. Locate the Piegan village.

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7. Lest on the sunset trail slow feet should err.

What is the “sunset trail”?

16. You saw no Black Robe?

Black Robe, priest, so-called by all Indians.

18. “Heaped snow—sharp stars—a kiote on the rise.”

The answer is true to the laconic Indian speech, but it is beautiful.