e boy go. Then, the preacher asked Blue Elk if he would go and get the boy and take him to the reservation for ten dollars. Blue Elk agreed and tracked the boy down to his lodge. Blue Elk stayed with him for a while and eventually talked him in to going with him.Blue Elk, Bears Brother, and his cub were headed toward the reservation. Blue Elk tricked Bears Brother into going to the reservation. Blue Elk got his ten dollars from the preacher after taking the boy to the reservation. The people here locked the boy's bear up in a horse pin here. A man named Benny Grayback looked over him here and changed his name back to Thomas Black Bull. Thomas got put in the dormitory here with a boy named Luther Spotted Dog. He didnt like Luther or anything about the reservation. He didnt like the food here and all the kids laughed at him because of his long braids and his real Indian look. Thomas caused a lot of trouble at the reservation and one day Benny Grayback told him that he was taking him back to his home. Benny lied to him and took Thomas and his bear to Horse Mountain. Here, Benny Grayback made Thomas let loose his bear into the mountains. Thomas hated him for tricking him like that. Then, one night Thomas snuck out of the reservation and went back to his lodge in the Bald Mountains. Finally, he made it to his lodge to discover that it had been burnt down. Thomas knew who had done it. It was Blue Elk. A few days after that some men at the reservation came and found Thomas. After he came back to the reservation, he gave up on getting out of it. He started speaking English, wearing shoes not moccasins, and cut off his braids. Thomas started becoming just a regular kid there. He did many jobs there. One job was to hear the horses. He would herd the horses and he learned how to ride a bucking horse during this time. Neal Swanson was the man in charge of the horses. He got mad after he found out that Thomas was riding his...
