Show tall tale talc on indian relations from frolli the flies files or of tho utah writers project among the tall tales bearing on gindlin walto relations weve seen been worse stories than tho the following from the men files of the utah writers project in which joo joe walker out b ogled the indians indiana by scalping himself in public according to the that legend joe joa walker not tho wever the most famous mountain man of thenamae the name was an old time tinto indian scout whom the years had treated rather harshly ile he had lost an eyo eye from a shoshone Sho ahone arrow his hair and part ot of lila lils scalp scap had haa wen been neatly removed when joe ones once bet he could throw a 4 grizzly with lils his bare hands and old joe wah was his teeth having one by one le pArted this life snoday one day joo joe decided to spruce up a bit and when lie he appeared in a new wig a glass eyo eye and with a sat got of stor teeth oven even his best friends admitted to improvement in 73 the lie indian agent from tho the basin sought nought a treaty with tho the utes and sent bent for old joe to act as an intorn intorp reter A few days later lalor me pow wow dinv came caine off and the tha peace pipe went slowly around the circle of iio lonin faces at length an old chief arose and said bald ugh tight ugh a fow tint times us wiloh joe interpreted an aa a pretty hos tile argument As words worda went back and forath joe could see aee that tho the conference was wag getting betting nowhere fast the hie indians evidently preferring scalps to peace so at U last joe decided heal he id allow them indians it ft thing or two not down lit in sacred history sitting down casually lie ho ran hla big hand several times under his hair pho into younger bucho began to turn green and sidle away but joo joe called the he meeting back to order and the went on still with perfect nonchalance i nce joe suddenly i ran an his store teeth out on his tongue a few inns times in color you tell indiana from whites and the tha lessor a mong them sneaked away with a great effort tho the chief wobbled to his joet feet joe rose to translate but instead calmly plucked out his glass eye and began to polish it with a bandanna ugal ugh yelled the chief and this time it meant something like run for your lives boys three indians inns ila ns were crippled in the rusti ruse joe always maintained quite a reputation with the utes i |