r Terry, Crook, and Custer.

While telling his story he stood upright, lifted his hands full length,
which among the Crows signified an oath, meaning that he would tell the
truth. His Indian boyhood name was Be-Shay-es-chay-e-coo-sis, "White
Buffalo That Turns Around." When he was about ten years of age his
grandfather named him after an event in his own father's life. A white
man pursued his father, firing his gun above his father's head in order to
make him run. And he was afterward called "White-Man-Runs-Him."

Regarding his boyhood days he tells us: "Until I was fifteen years of age,
together with my boy playmates, we trained with bows and arrows. We
learned to shoot buffalo calves, and this practice gave us training for
the warpath. It answered two purposes: protection and support. We were
also taught the management of horses. We early learned how to ride well.
When the camp moved we boys waited and walked to the new camp for
exercise, or we hunted on the way. We felt brave enough to meet anything.
Thus it was that we roamed over the hills, and climbed the rocks in search
of game, but we were sure to arrive at the camp just in time for the meal
which had been prepared by the squaws. If on our way to the camp we came
across game, such as a rabbit, we shot it with our arrows, broiled it and
ate it for fun. When we got to the new camp we would all praise one boy
for some deed that he had performed on the way, and then we would sing and
dance. That boy's folks would give all us boys a dish of pemmican for the
good deed he had performed. The little girls had small tepees. They
practised cooking, learning from the older women. These girls would serve
delicacies to us, and we would sing and dance around their tepee."

"When we were quite small boys we would go out hunting horses, and bring
back a dog and call it a horse. When we made a new camp we seldom stayed
more than ten days. In that way our health was sustained by travel.
While we were on the move from one camp to another, we had to cross wide
streams. We boys would measure the width of the river, and compete with
each other to see who could swim across without stopping. I am telling
you now what I did to build myself up to be the man I am now. The boys
who were the same age and size as myself would wrestle, and if a boy
downed me three or four times, I kept up the practice of wrestling until I
had more strength. Then I could throw this boy and