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Warrior of the Past

ISBN 9781419916212

Edited by Pamela Campbell.

Photography and cover art by Les Byerley.

Electronic book Publication May 2008

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is purely coincidental. The characters are productions of the author’s imagination and used fictitiously.

W ARRIOR OF THE P AST

L.A. Day

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Author Note

The Yahi Indian tribe appeared to have vanished completely by the early 1900s,

though there is some debate as to the exact date. Ishi, believed to be the last surviving

Yahi, died in 1916. It has since been discovered that he was of mixed heritage. Although

the Yahi were a sub-group of the Yana, much of their customs and beliefs are forever

lost. I have embellished some of their beliefs for a creative story.

Warrior of the Past

Prologue

Tehama County, CA

1866

A thick cloud of dust and gunpowder hung in the air. From the other side of the

village, Bear Claw watched helplessly as his lifelong friend, Lone Wolf, dropped to his

knees. Blood spurted from a gaping wound in Lone Wolf’s back as he pitched face-

forward into the dirt.

A shrill cry erupted from Bear Claw’s throat as he sliced through a gold-seeker and

charged. Reaching Lone Wolf’s side, he scooped up the large warrior and carried him

from the chaos. The wound was bad, most likely fatal, and there was little he could do.

Ripping up a moss clump, he held it to the wound. “I will get help,” Bear Claw

promised before charging back into the battle.

Death rained from the sky as more and more warriors fell to the ground but what

hurt worse was the indiscriminate way the gold seekers fired upon the women and

children. His arms grew weary but still Bear Claw battled even knowing that he was

seeing the last of his Yahi clan.

Bear Claw’s knife sank to the hilt in the stomach of the white-eyes in front of him.

“You may have killed me Injun but yer a dead man.”

In the man’s face, as death took him, Bear Claw saw the future. From the corner of

his eye, Bear saw the butt of the rifle just before he felt the blow to his skull. His knees

buckled as blackness engulfed him.

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