When the teepee grew foul, which their habits made inevitable, a simple and satisfactory remedy was discovered in a shift to another camp-ground.

Not so with the log houses, whose foul corners, littered with the accumulated filth of a winter's occupation, became fertile breeding places for the germs of disease and death.

Irregularly strewn upon the grassy plain in the valley bottom some two dozen teepees marked the Piegan summer headquarters.

Above the camp rose the smoke of their camp-fires, for it was still early and their morning meal was yet in preparation..