This was also a famous horse-breeding spot, the grasses in the vicinity being especially adapted for that business.
Here was a hunter's paradise—plenty of buffalo and fine horses. No wonder good hunters would be the result!
AN EXPERT HUNTER
From here the party went out which had the Indian with it, to whom the Hudson's Bay officer gave seventeen arrows, and said, "Now, let us see what you can do;" and the Indian modestly answered, "I can but try," and killed sixteen buffalo in the straight "race set before" him.
This was the trading home of Big Bear, who for years was hunter for the fort, and who, later on, much against his own will, was deceived and persuaded to join the foolish rebellion of 1885.
CHAPTER XXIII.
On to White-fish Lake—Beautiful country—Indian camp—Strike northward into forest land.