Grizzly Killer: The Painted Skull by Lane R Warenski

Author:Lane R Warenski
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781641199100
Publisher: Wolfpack Publishing
Published: 2019-03-27T00:00:00+00:00

15 THE WARM SPRINGS

DAZA-MEA’, the summer moon peeked through the treetops of the ridge east of camp just after dark, it was near the end of June, and that was what they had been preparing for. The following day they left for the Willow Valley. Zach figured it would take them seven or eight days to reach the Rendezvous site. He hoped they would get there just before the pack train of supplies reached the valley from Saint Louis.

It was a warm, clear summer day as they made their way across the big meadow. They were heading northwest toward the Bear River. Once out of the mountains, they had a day’s travel through high rolling hills of sagebrush. Wild flowers were still in bloom nearly everywhere and each time they stopped to rest the horses the women dug roots or harvested plants for their meals. Raven Wing had been picking and drying plants for her medicine kit for the last couple of weeks and she continued to do so as they traveled.

Trapper followed Luna, still acting like the white wolf was his mother. Zach and the others laughed at the rapidly growing cub. None of them believed he knew he was a bear. Trapper had been born the second week of January, deep in the den. His mother was in the deep sleep of hibernation when she gave birth. Trapper and his brother each found a teat and moved very little for the next two months. The two cubs each weighed less than a pound when they were born, tiny little guys with very little soft gray fur. It was about the first of April when his mother awoke and left the den, taking the newborn cubs with her.

Trapper was much bigger and stronger than his brother, weighing nearly ten pounds. By the beginning of May, the weaker cub had grown very little and could no longer keep up with their mother. Eventually, she just walked away, leaving him to perish in the unforgiving wilderness.

Trapper had flourished and gained weight rapidly. He weighed close to twenty pounds when Running Wolf had to shoot his mother and he was now over forty pounds. He had no trouble at all keeping up with Luna and the walking horses.

The first night on the trail, they camped under the stars on a small creek that eventually ran into the Bear River. They had found large mountain hares in this area before and Buffalo Heart along with Red Hawk took the dogs hunting. The women barely had a fire started when Jimbo came back with one of the huge rabbits. He set it by the fire and took off again to catch up with the hunters.

Red Hawk still showed signs of the avalanche. His eyes were still shaded and his left leg and hip still showed the yellowish purple of the fading bruises. But now he moved without much pain and had resumed all of his normal activities.

Zach and Running Wolf took the packs off the horses and rubbed them down with clumps of grass.

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