Chapter 15: XIII

XIII A Visit to Stemteemä’s Teepee Filled the red-stone pipe for smoking, With tobacco from the South-land, Mixed with bark of the red willow, And with herbs and leaves of fragrance. Hiawatha The hot, sweltry days of August were closing. The tenth of September, which marked the opening of the great fall roundup—when the riders of the H-B would remain in the saddle from morning till night—was drawing near. It was Sabbath, and the ranch home was almost deser…