On the morning that they approached the camp here on cutbank, Falling Bear had partly recovered the use of one eye. |
He stands broadside to the road's line of travel, his front feet at the bottom of the cutbank where the road is in a trough sliced through a low hill to ease the grade. |
I worked my way downstream chucking streamer after streamer toward the cutbank and stripping it back with little jerks to imitate a swimming bait fish. |
It was the Pu-nak-ik-si, or cutbank River, so named on account of the rock walls on both sides of the lower part of its valley. |
Radiocarbon ages are not available for the cutbank deposits adjacent to the point bar that produced the Arctodus humerus. |
A hundred yards from his objective he dismounted, removed his spurs, and crawled stealthily toward the rim of the cutbank. |