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- Title: Pioneer Spirit: Book Two: Indian Affairs
- Author : Earle Jay Goodman
- Release Date : January 24, 2020
- Genre: Gay,Books,Fiction & Literature,Historical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 592 KB
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Book Two: Indian Affairs continued Connal Lee’s adventures with the young Shoshone family who saved him after being shot by Crow Warriors. After the handcart train reached Fort Hall, Connal Lee’s brother decided to homestead a clay claim on the Snake River north of Fort Hall. The handcart company left for Great Salt Lake City without them. They missed Connal Lee who they hadn’t seen since the Crow Warriors attacked this side of the Continental Divide.
While traveling together, Connal Lee taught English to White Wolf, Short Rainbow and Screaming Eagle. They taught him to speak Shoshone. One day their warrior didn’t return from spying on the Crows they were following. Connal Lee tracked him to where he was held captive, shot the Crow warriors, and freed him. In gratitude, the apprentice War Chief adopted Connal Lee as his brother. Then they all adopted each other as brothers and sister.
They traveled west along the Overland Trail until they arrived at Fort Hall. They stopped in the Fort to trade hides and furs for ammunition. Mr. Mackey, the fur trader, told Connal Lee his hand cart company had continued down to Great Salt Lake City a while back. Homesickness and frustration overcame Connal Lee at having missed the train with his family and his adopted parents, the Baines. The Shoshones took Connal Lee to Chief Arimo at his winter camp south of Fort Hall.
A few days later, Chief Arimo led his entire clan of 1,000 people on their annual fur trading expedition to Great Salt Lake City. Along the way, the Chief adopted Connal Lee as his white Shoshone son. Chief Arimo took Connal Lee, Screaming Eagle and White Wolf to pay a courtesy call on his friend and ally, Brigham Young, Governor of the Territory of Utah and leader of the Mormon Church. Brigham Young invited them to attend a Council of War. They heard about Brigham’s clever strategies for delaying the huge army dispatched by President Buchanan to put down a perceived but non-existent Mormon rebellion.
Connal Lee couldn’t find word of Zeff and Sister Woman or of Lorna and Gilbert Baines in Great Salt Lake City, so he visited the Captain of the handcart company on his farm below Provo. Captain Hanover told Connal Lee that Zeff had stayed back at Fort Hall and the Baines had settled in Fort Bountiful, just north of Great Salt Lake City. Connal Lee and his adopted family tracked down the Baines. Lorna and Gilbert had liked the looks of the land around the Snake River and decided to accompany Connal Lee back to Fort Hall. Along the way, the Shoshone family invited Connal Lee to join their tipi, which meant to join them in marriage. He loved them all so much, he happily accepted.
Connal Lee and his Shoshone spouses wintered in Chief Arimo’s camp on the Portneuf River. Shortly after the clan returned from Great Salt Lake City, measles infected the entire camp. Its fever indiscriminately took the lives of one out of five, leaving the clan devastated. That winter Connal Lee’s Cavalry best friend, Captain Reed of Fort Laramie, arrived to take command of Fort Hall.
