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"When the buffalo are all slaughtered... and the secret corners of the forest heavy with the scent of man, and the view of the ripe hills blotted with talking wires, where is the thicket? Gone. Where is the eagle? Gone. And what is to say goodbye to the swift and the hunt, the end of living and the beginning of survival... Whatever befalls the earth, befalls the sons of the earth."

"All things share the same breath ~ the beasts, the trees, the man. What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from great loneliness of spirit the great buffalo fall to the white mans fire... and the earth is weeping... weeping."

Scout William 'Billy' McCabe ~ Trapper, mountain man, and scout. Only white man to hold witness to the claim that Shoshone Chief Washakita at age 63, left his reservation and returned two months later with seven Blackfoot scalps to prove to the younger braves that he still had the spirit and strength to be victorious in battle.

1868 ~ Wind River Reservation

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