WOLF EAR THE INDIAN
A STORY OF THE GREAT
UPRISING OF 1890-91
BY
EDWARD S. ELLIS
Author of "Captured by Indians," "A Hunt on Snow Shoes,"
"The Mountain Star," etc. etc.
WITH FOUR FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS BY
ALFRED PEARSE
SEVENTEENTH THOUSAND
CASSELL AND COMPANY, LIMITED
London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.
"The bullet had passed startlingly near him"
CHAPTER II.
"He's up to some mischief, I'll warrant"
CHAPTER III.
"There are fifty hostiles"
CHAPTER IV.
"We are enemies"
CHAPTER V.
"What will be their next step?"
CHAPTER VI.
"Ay, where were they?"
CHAPTER VII.
"It came like one of them Kansan cyclones"
CHAPTER VIII.
"The bucks were coming up alarmingly fast"
CHAPTER IX.
"He has made his last scout"
CHAPTER X.
"Oh, there is Wolf Ear?"
CHAPTER XI.
"I'm off! Good-bye!"
CHAPTER XII.
What happened to Wolf Ear
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
"I'm off! Good-bye!" ... Frontispiece
"The figure of a Sioux Buck"
"Hurrah!"
[Transcriber's note: the first three illustrations weremissing from the source book.]
WOLF EAR THE INDIAN
CHAPTER I.
"THE BULLET HAD PASSED STARTLINGLY NEAR HIM."
Before relating to my young friends the incidentswhich follow, I think a few words of explanationwill help them.
Perhaps some of you share the generalmistake that the American Indians are dying out.This is not the fact. There are to-day more redmen in the United States than ever before. Innumber, they exceed a quarter of a million, andthough they do not increase as fast as the whites,still they are increasing.
It is true that a great many tribes havedisappeared, while others that were once numerous andpowerful have dwindled to a few hundreds; buton the other hand, tribes that were hardly knowna century ago now include thousands.
The many wars between the United States andthe Indians have been caused, almost withoutexception, by gross injustice towards the red men.They have been wro