looking east from whence we came. In the far distance is Bad Marriage Mountain with Eagle Plume and Red Mountain sticking up behind Medicine Grizzly Peak. You can now clearly see the lake in that hanging valley/cirque of Medicine Grizzly Mountain.

Take Eagle Plume. It’s not descriptive, although the peak is nicely plume-shaped. Holterman ties it to the story of a childless Kaina chief of that name. Eagle Plume pursued a wolf through a winter blizzard, uncertain if he was hunting it or it was leading him on some quest. He took a shot, but his gun misfired.

That night, he built a shelter, and heard a strange cry in the wind. Eagle Plume investigated, and found the body of a woman frozen in the snow. Above her, hanging in a tree on a cradle-board, was a baby boy. Eagle Plume warmed him with his own body and rejoiced at finally having a child, whom he named Mahkuyi-uskin (Wolf’s Little Brother). And he and his wife vowed to never again shoot at a wolf. “This little gem is Native American short story at its best,” Holterman wrote of the Eagle Plume tale. He credits it to Buffalo Child Long Lance, also known as Hollywood actor Sylvester Long.