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 hunted in was unknown and feared by the Indians.

Thunder storms are of rare occurrence in the Valley of the Columbia and hence the Indians were very much impressed by them when they did occur.

Jim Crow Mountain, near Brookfield, was a rough piece of country in which the hunting was poor. It was "Mesatchie Illihee," and so in time the Indians connected together what they thought was cause and effect. Jim Crow Mountain obtained the reputation of being a thunder blasted district and as being the chosen resting place of the gigantic Thunder Bird who so terrified the poor Indians with the flashings of its eyes and the mighty roll and thunder of its dark wings.

A part of the Upper Valley of the Wenatchee