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A few words now about the personages we have just brought upon the scene, and who are destined to play an important part in this history.
Loyal Heart -- this name was the only one by which the hunter was known throughout the prairies of the West -- enjoyed an immense reputation for skill, loyalty, and courage among the Indian tribes, with whom the chances of his adventurous existence had brought him in relation. All respected him. The white hunters and trappers, whether Spaniards, North Americans, or half-breeds, had a high opinion of his experience of the woods, and often had recourse to his counsels.