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Lost with Lieutenant Pike: How from the Pawnee Village the boy named Scar Head marched with the young American Chief clear into the Snowy Mountains; how in the dead of winter they searched for the Lost River and thought that they had found it; and how the Spanish Soldiery came upon them and took them down to Santa Fé of New Mexico, where another surprise awaited themSabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)

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Lost with Lieutenant Pike: How from the Pawnee Village the boy named Scar Head marched with the young American Chief clear into the Snowy Mountains; how in the dead of winter they searched for the Lost River and thought that they had found it; and how the Spanish Soldiery came upon them and took them down to Santa Fé of New Mexico, where another surprise awaited them

Name: Lost with Lieutenant Pike: How from the Pawnee Village the boy named Scar Head marched with the young American Chief clear into the Snowy Mountains; how in the dead of winter they searched for the Lost River and thought that they had found it; and how the Spanish Soldiery came upon them and took them down to Santa Fé of New Mexico, where another surprise awaited them
Author: Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)

Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)

Pike, Zebulon Montgomery, 1779-1813 -- Juvenile fiction

These were the words of the heralds shouting through the great town
of the Pawnee Republic. Scar Head heard. He had returned this morning
from the American camp with the interpreter (whose name was Baroney),
and felt rather important as the other boys curiously questioned him.
To Chief White Wolf he had only good to report of the Americans. They
had treated him well, aside from bothering him with talk about himself;
but he had told them little. The fact was, he did not know much that he
could tell!

Baroney had wished to trade for provisions and horses. Now it was
afternoon, and new excitement arose. The Kansas were coming! A peace
party of them had halted, out on the prairie, and had sent in one man
to announce them. They had come by order of the American father, to
smoke peace with the Osages.

The Osages and the Kansas had long been bitter enemies; the Pawnees,
too, had lost many scalps to the Kansas, although just at present there
was no war between them.

So Chief Charakterik directed that the Kansas be well received and
feasted. Baroney the American interpreter took word up to the Pike camp
that the Kansas were waiting.

The two American chiefs exchanged visits with Chiefs White Wolf and
Rich Man, and the Kansas chiefs. In a council held the next day the
Kansas principal chief, Wah-on-son-gay, and his sub-chiefs, and
the Osage principal chief, Shin-ga-wa-sa or Pretty Bird, and his
sub-chiefs, agreed upon paper that the nations of the Kansas and the
Osage should be friends, according to the wish of their American father.

Wolf, the Pawnee, laughed.

“It will last only until spring,” he said. “Nobody can trust the
Kansas; and as for those Osage, they are getting to be a nation of
squaws. One-half their face is red, the other half is white. We Pawnee
are all red. We are not afraid of the Kansas, and we shall not help
the Americans. They are a small people of small hearts, as the Spanish
chief said.”

This might appear to be the truth. Chief Charakterik was of the same
opinion. He and Second Chief Iskatappe and two sub-chiefs had been
invited to a feast by the American chiefs. When they returned they
were scornful, although White Wolf had been given a gun with two
barrels, an arm band, and other things, and the other chiefs also had
been rewarded.

Scar Head heard Rich Man tell about it.

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