n southwestern Colorado. This is where George, Bessie, and Thomas Black Bull live. One day this family and some of their friends go and camp on the reservation line to kill deer for the winter. Then a man named Blue Elk came and found them. He said they were in bad trouble and the police would come get them because they didnt have proper permits to be where they were. Blue Elk made a deal with them. He told George that if he came and lived in the town Piedra and worked at the sawmill he would get everything cleared up with the police. George agreed to work at the sawmill. It was good money. After a while, his wife Bessie got tired of living in the town and wanted to move back to the reservation so George started to save up his money to pay the fees he owed to the store and to other people. Everytime he would save up his money someone would steal it. He finally found out who stole all of his money. It was a man named Frank No Dear. George got tired of him stealing his money so he killed him. After he killed him, his family left to go and live in the Bald Mountains. After staying there in a lodge they built, George was killed in an avalanche while hunting for deer. Not long after that, Thomas changed his name to Bears Brother. In the Ute tribe, they let their people chose their own name after a period of time. Then, his mother Bessie died from an illness.Bears Brother was left alone. One day, he saw a hunter kill a bear and on of its cubs. The bear had two cubs. One of them was left alone so he took one of them as his pet and before long he called the cub his brother. Some time later, he went into the nearest town to Bald Mountain, Pagosa, with his cub to trade at the general store for supplies. This caused a lot of madness in the town because he had brought a bear. As he was leaving the town, Blue Elk stopped him and asked, whom do you live with. He said he lived with his brother in the mountains. Blue Elk let th...
