Elk and deer and bear and buffalo and smaller animals were being jerked and dried at every house, and every larder was filled to the brim.

There could be no lack of food the coming winter, the settlers said, and they spoke with some pride of their care and providence.
The village was gaining in both comfort and picturesqueness.

Tanned skins of the deer, elk, buffalo, bear, wolf, panther and wild cat hung on the walls of every house, and were spread on every floor.

The women contrived fans and ornaments of the beautiful mottled plumage of the wild turkey.

Cloth was hard to obtain in the wilderness, as it might be a year before a pack train would come over the mountains from the east, and so the women made clothing of the softest and lightest of the dressed deer skin.