Forty Years a Fur Trader On the Upper Missouri; the Personal Narrative of Charles Larpenteur, 1833-1872;
Forty Years a Fur Trader On the Upper Missouri; the Personal Narrative of Charles Larpenteur, 1833-1872;
Charles Larpenteur
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Then he watches for her Digitized by Googk MARRIAGE. 399 when she goesjor wood or water, saying a few words to her, and giving her a finger ring. When he makes small presents to the mother, father, and brothers they discover what he is after; but he never enters the lodge of his sweetheart. At this stage of the proceedings, if the young couple get very much in love with each other, and the young man cannot obtain the means to buy her, they elope to another band of the same tribe. But if he be a... young man of means, and has obtained the consent of the woman, he ties a horse at her lodge; if the horse is accepted, the girl goes that night to his lodge; if not, the horse remains tied at the lodge, and the young man sends for it in the morning. If he has other horses, and loves the girl enough, the following day he ties two; and some- times four or five horses are thus tied — the more horses, the greater honor for all parties. An elope- ment may also take place when the old folks will not consent, after the girl has been given the refusal of a horse.
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