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The Pioneers

fiO PICTURE of the Western Indian can be complete without reference to the race that supplanted him and the circumstances of the contact of the two races so long as it existed.

Shuffle Shoon and Amber Locks Sit together building blocks, Shuffle Shoon is old and gray, Amber Locks a little child.

One speaks of the long ago. Where his dead hopes buried lie, One with chubby cheeks aglow, Prattleth of the By and By.

In 1850 there were probably not to exceed one thousand white men in all the vast district