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The American Indians, lovers of brilliant The Pinto, with its striking two-tone coat,
colorand decoration, long ago chose two of our gained a much wider popularity among the
more colorful horses, the Pinto and Appaloosa, American Indians than did the Appaloosa.
as their own. This is probably because he was more common
The Appaloosa is the beautiful horse with throughout the west and, therefore, more easily
peculiar leopard-like spots, usually confined obtained. Most western cattlemen had no use
to the rump, which give the appearance of for the "Paint Horse." So like the Appaloosa,
having been daubed by an artist's brush. The the Pinto was closely associated with the
Nez Perce Indians regarded these strange Indian, and also came to be known as the
horses as animals inspired by the Great Spirit, "Indian Horse."
and herded hundreds of them into the Palouse
country where they could roam and multiply
in the lush meadows.
As the Appaloosas increased, no two of their
striking coats were marked alike, and each
band had its soft bay shades, chestnuts, duns,
and blacks. In time, the horse became known
as "Palouse" Indian horse, or simply "a
Palouse." This was soon contracted to "Apa-
louse," and is now called "Appaloosa."
Besides having unusual beauty, the Ap-
paloosa has the reputation of being a fine trail
horse, and "tougher than a Missouri mule."

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the cave room ot his 15-year-old son. Hyo-
ko's withered legs oched from sitting at his
loom where he wove cotton cloth to trade for
food. The, boy should be helping him— or else
out hunting for meat! Instead, he was mak-
ing another foolish toy, an arrow that was
too long for any bow to shoot properly!

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Or else take your bow and hunt some gome
for our supper! You are nearly a grown man,
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parents, instead of making toys, like o child!"
Hyoko's voice was raised loudly enough
to be heard in all the nearby cliff dwellings
of the canyon community. A flush of deep
embarrassment stained Tyu's cheeks as he
rose to his feet. If only Nunya the Laughing
Maiden hadn't heard! But, of course, she had!
Tyu hurried down the ladder to the ledge
below his home. The long, blunt arrow was
still was no toy— but he couldn't
in his hand. It

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to his father!

til he had learned to bend the greot "bow exultant grins. And Tyu's father toy helpless,
that matched it! paralyzed by an arrow in his spine.
From a dry, safe crevice in the rock, out memory, Tyu saw himself pick up his
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of sight of the village, he lifted his secret bow and fit an arrow to the string.
father's
weapon. wos nearly six feet long, and
It Inmemory, he fell his muscles straining to
much heavier than any bow he hod ever seen, bend the man-sized weapon— felt the hard
ll was his own manufacture. As he caressed string cut his fingers! Then something yielded!
the smooth length of it, his mind went back The bow wos drawn— the arrow loosed! It

to the day, seven years ago, when his father pierced the topmost enemy on the ladder, and
was injured. The scene lived again. he fell! His fall carried the others with him.
wos a day of terror. Wild Navajos, with
It And no more Navajos came* to take their
stronger bows and heavier arrows than the place
Chaco cliff dwellers possessed, had swept into In the years that followed, thot memory
the canyon, just after the corn harvest. They never dimmed. And out of it grew a Great
had come to loot and kill. Three of them were Idea:— if a small boy could'frnd the trick of

climbing a ladder to Tyu's home cave, their bending a man's bow, then o boy grown to
bows slung on their bocks, their war clubs manhood could learn to bend a bow thai
red with blood, their teeth showing in fierce. would shoot twice as far, twice as hard!
 Aiming at a while stone two hundred yards o whooping, deadly, irresistible mob, this time
iway he loosed —but stealthily just before down. The first that
The blunt arrow whistled with terrific speed. Tyu knew of it was the wail of bitter grief and
H (truck, and shattered 'o pieces on the mark. rage thot arose from the cave home of
That night Tyu brought back two wild geese laughing Maiden,
'o hi» astonished parents. But the great bow "She is gone! She is gone!" cried the girl's

i»d its long arrows he hod left hidden in the stricken mother, recovering from a stunning
crevice of the rock Not until he could drow blow. "And they have killed Bodakai. my
'is bowstring oil the way, would he show his man!"
secret weapon to family or friends. "Ai-eee! There they go!" another votce rang
In the year that followed, Tyu's shoulders out. "They climb the cliff with Laughing
filled out From constant practice with the Maiden their captive!"

greo* bow, they come to bulge with steel- Ripping the cover from his long bow, Tyu
tough muscles- Now his parents' home was sprang lo the ladder Down on the ledge he
always well supplied with meat, and from
rime to time he brought o deer or an antelope
to the parents of Laughing Maiden. To be

whipped a long arrow to the string. The Nov

o|os were beyond ordinary bowshot— in a few
seconds they would be out of sight, unless-
PONG! The deep twang of the Great Bow
— Ihe scream of its speeding arrow-
thin
sure, she still laughed at his gifts, but Tyu were echoed by a scream from above. One
knew thai she liked him better than the enemy stopped! PONG! A second Navajo,
older warriors who wanted to marry her mortally leaped
hit, into the canyon.
The trouble was, Tyu hod never proved him- Eight times the Secret Weapon of Tyu
self m battle He was still a boy in the eyes of spoke!No need of more! For now Laughing
all th« tribe. Maiden stood alone, still scarcely understand-
Tyu found himself almost wishing that the ing that her captors were all dead or fled
wild Navajos would attack again. He made when Tyu
But of the Long Bow came bound-
a "medicine bundle" to hide his long bow, ing up to hei side, HE understood the look
and began keeping it in his own home cave. thot wos in her eyes— the look thot a girl give-,
One night the Navojos did come! No1 in to her chosen warrior'
 YOUNG HAWK

Arm RESCUING THE YOUNG pueblo hunter TUARI and his squaw from raiding apaches, young hawk and
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