Even for those unfamiliar with the native dialect, the words and phrases in English can be beguiling. Among the phrases chosen for translation are "Go slow, friend, don't get mad" and "You done wrong."
(A Vocabulary of the Snake, or, Sho-Sho-Nay Dialect by Joseph A. Gebow, Interpreter. Second Edition, Revised and Improved, January 1st, 1864.)
The present Library of Congress copy is inscribed to the Smithsonian Institution, and to judge from a date stamp it was added to the Smithsonian Library by May 1870. Later it was transferred to the Library of Congress through the Smithsonian Deposit (see above, p. 52). It is in an old library binding with the original printed wrappers bound in.
[135] See Douglas C. McMurtrie, Early Printing in Wyoming and the Black Hills (Hattiesburg, Miss., 1943), p. 9-10.
[136] Ibid., p. 10, note 1.
[137] Ibid., p. 39. On p. 48 McMurtrie argues that the pamphlet was printed in the month of October.