Show INDIAN LEGE LEGEND ND 0 among the tall tales bearing on indian white relations relation S we have seen wor s stor actor cs than the following from the files of the utah writers project in which joe walker out bogic bodied I the indians by scalping himself in public according to the legend joe walker not however the most famous mountain man of the name was an old time indian scout whom the years had tre treat rather harshly he had lost los losta tJ eye from a shoshone arrow ina hair and part of his scalp had been neatly removed when joe once bet he be could throw a grizzly with his bare hands and old joe was a gummer his teeth having one by one departed this life one day joe decided 40 10 spruce up a bit and when he appeared with a new wig a glass eye and a set of store teeth even his best friends admitted to improvement in 73 the indian agent from the uintah basin sought a treaty with w ith the chivi utes and sent for old joe to act as interpreter A few days later the powwow pow wow came off and the peace pipe we cepl W slowly around the circle of sole soled j J f faces ac es at length an old 0 id ch chut 1 fal arose and said ugh ugh a few times which joe interpreted as a pretty hostile argument As words went b back ack and forth joe could see that the conference was getting nowhere fast the indians evidently preferring scalps to peace so at last joe decided hed show them indians a thing or two not down in sacred history sitting down casually he ran his hand several times under his hair the younger bucks began to turn green and sidle away but joe called the meeting back to order and the confab went on still with perfect nonchalance joe suddenly ran his store teeth out on his tongue a few times in color you ell bell indians from whites and the lesser ones among them sneaked away with a great effort the chief wobbled to his feet joe rose to translate but instead calmly plucked out his glass eye and began to polish it with his bandanna ugh ugh yelled the chief and this time it meant something like run for your lives boys three indians were crippled in the rush joe always maintained quite a reputation with the chivi utes |