Show A I 1 HUE IRUE STORI AM AND AN H 11 C L 1 christensen indian missionary and interpreter it happened in wi wise wie e in 1878 ahad I 1 had been ben traveling with nith jacob on oil a ions tour amongst the apaches and aunis and other pueblo il laiti u encountered hie his old companion ammon tinner tinne over in zaoie valley N it I 1 too became intensely anten tely in thi thu thit t interest ing mar for he seemed to have been an indian millenary and frontiersman all his lift ae e traveled trae led to kether gether a number of da t all 0 K until e had passed fort defiance N M a misnomer for while m hile it is a well built fortification of solid black dalipi rok it is surrounded bs the same material b nature or some other creative power for it is i local icat ed down don in a canyon nith mith hills sur rounding round which are much higher and in ver clo close cloe e proximity so much so that the enemy can overlook and shoot into the fort without difficult ty with bows and arrows it Is claimed by the Nava joes that one indian called has kea hea oane yonei the angry man killed 33 colored men who nere mere stationed as soldiers in this place hence it is truly nicknamed unless applied to the safety of the enemy we seemed on very friendly terms till ve ue had trae traveled led from this thi place about 30 an early morn inc ing in june these two wo old br ethern in indian lore eema demtd to hue hae laid a deep plot plot to set s et nd iid of me for when jacob a mules were hitched up jacob suggested asted to me that I 1 had bad better let brother anney drive the team a they were ere pomp going back lo 10 wingate Win Rate I 1 could not tell which m was as the most affected b the sudden change me or the mules as I 1 had driven them so many miles over dangerous danger trails and quicksand rivers and wishes be that as it may I 1 know I 1 felt bad and the only companion companions or visible help they left roe me were a number of sheep sh jacob suggested that I 1 ue tie them freely and teach them how to shear their sheep for at that time i there was not a pair of shears to be found in the whole navajo nation and an old butcher knife was vas a rare tool amorist them at thai that time A hoop iron from a barrel with a mg a around the iron to keep from chadine ch afine the hand was their shearing tool toola pre president brigham young had furnished 40 pairs of shears shean to jacob to be riven given to the indians indiana as fast as they learned to use them but they oon had them broken in two as they tired thedr wrists and they soon were whaling away ith half a shear stear they abey kindly ay left 65 pounds of flour which lasted just two to days for my newly found friends the Nava joes made KOI good use of it it also was new to them I 1 filled up on go boits tvs milk hore horse meat was alo alto a good substitute for my flour and hot dog yea yes real dot for they raided them to eat they were very poor 0 at t this time forgot for only eight years yeam eum had passed since they K had ad been returned i d from their cit captivity in new ew mexico by general wit kit carson by whom they had been completely subdued I 1 sheared sl estred I 1 1400 he head aa 1 of sheep made friends cf of their numerous tootles coot co otles iea and aftem many days day I 1 return returned ei home on A a little black mare riding i on nil a I 1 bip bir otan 0 o an my onh bidding I 1 nude 80 milem the first day with ill i indian mail carrier who alio furnish ed me with ith the mare I 1 felt much in need of a saddle as m legs cs grew I 1 nger at eer jump and I 1 felt ore sore aveo where even een in m feelings C 1 L christensen 11 S this country countr here I 1 shear t I 1 sheep is called b by the NaNa aa joes flo 0 o gua a lazy mans man s auntry I 1 did not change the name an adv b ni mv presence |