When The Legends Die

When The Legends Die

This is the story of the life an Ute family, and in particular the way of their people. The story
starts off with the father of the family, George Black Bull running for his life from the sheriff and Blue Elk,
one of the old Ute men. He had shot a man named Frank No Deer, he had killed him for stealing his money
three times that he owed to a sawmill in Pagosa where he had worked with many other of his people, that
he had saved for a long period of time. So George, his wife Bessie and son decided to live in the
mountains, where they would live the old way, singing songs for different occasions, fishing and hunting
with arrow instead of guns, and making use of the wilderness and all of it's resources. They built a cabin to
live in, in a location where George would not be found and put in jail for his crime, they caught their
meals, sewed their clothes and lived life and taught their son the way it had been lived by many generations
of their people in the past, until one da!
y George was crushed by an avalanche while hunting in a valley. Bessie new now that their son had
become the man of the family, and would be responsible for many of the tasks that needed to be done in
order to survive, it was also time for him to pick a name, he chose the name Bear's Brother. Every once
and a while they went to the village to trade for items that they could not make, but after a short period of
time Bessie became very ill and died. Bear's B...

When The Legends Die

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