WAR SHIRT (audio book). short story. MYSTERY BOOK. psychological drama. USA INDIANS

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Mid 19th century.
Prairies of the Wild West.
A white visitor from Philadelphia (USA) has been looking for his own brother for many years.
In search of fate leads him to meet and communicate with the leader of the Cheyenne tribe named Sacred Mark.

This story is not so simple.

And the one who recognizes her can find out for himself - who is this Cheyenne leader and where is the missing brother of the Philadelphian really ...

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NOTES:
--- Chinook -
wind blowing at times from the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains.

--- Frontier
- the line of advance to the West - to the Indian territory - of the US settlers.

-- Cain
- the name Cain has become a household name for an evil, envious person, capable of meanness in relation to the closest people. But it can often be not necessarily capable of killing.

--- Sacred Pole
- a religious ceremony practiced by the prairie Indians of North America; consists of ceremonial dances and chants, accompanied by symbolic rites. Usually includes self-torture.

--- Henry's rifle.
- was introduced in the early 1860s and manufactured in the United States by the New Haven Arms Company until 1866. In small numbers, the Henry rifle was adopted by the Union during the Civil War due to its greater firepower than the standard carbine.
The Henry Repeating Rifle is a tubular lever-action repeating rifle famous both for its use at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, and for being the basis for the iconic Winchester rifle of the American Old West.

--- Tipi
-cone-shaped tents of the prairie tribes of North America. Frame made of wooden poles. Flooring their skins of bison. Transported from camp to camp with the help of dogs or horses. Tipis are the main dwellings for the Prairie Indians.

--- Shoshone, Hunkpapa, Crow, Ree
- Tribes of Indians of North America, living mainly on the prairies.

--- Manton shotgun
- a flintlock shotgun made by the English firm of Joseph Manton (1766–1835). Manton is one of the most influential and respected gunsmiths in London in the late 18th and early 19th century. In the early 19th century, Manton invented a tube (or pellet) lock, an improvement over Alexander Forsyth's capsule lock. Instead of keeping a supply of fulminate in a container, they now used disposable pellets or pellets. The trigger of the gun was sharpened; when he fell, he crushed the tube (granule), as a result of which the rattling shells exploded.
to replace the flintlock, although it was more reliable than the Forsyth design, it was quickly replaced by the piston, which was adopted by the armies of Great Britain, France, Russia, and America.

--- Ku
- Ku - in the military affairs of the Indians of the Great Plains, touching the enemy's body with a hand or some object, which was a way to gain military glory and confirm one's own military prowess. The Indians of the Great Plains often fought among themselves, and military ability (along with hunting) was the most important characteristic of a man. It is for this reason that in such cultures there are various ways of objectively determining military prowess, courage and, accordingly, glory.
When the battle was over, all the warriors gathered and each called his ku. This made it possible to establish a clear hierarchy of courage, military prowess and glory (disputes, however, often arose, being resolved with the help of oaths). Ku could be counted not only on a warrior, but also on a woman and a child. Dangerous animals (for example, bears) could also act as an enemy.

--- Pawnee
- Pawnee (eng. Pawnee) - one of the Indian tribes of the United States, living in the past in the area of ​​the Platte, Loop and Republican rivers in the modern states of Nebraska and Kansas (USA).
The Pawnees called themselves "chahiksichachix" - men of men.

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The author of this interesting story is an American writer Dorothy M. Johnson.

Her writing was temporarily distracted by World War II when she went to work for the Air Observer Service.

After the war, she wrote some of her most famous stories about life in the Wild West.

Three of these were made into famous films, namely The Man Called Horse (1970) starring Richard Harris, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) starring John Wayne and James Stewart, and " Hanging Tree (1959) starring Gary Cooper.

In 2013, Johnson was inducted into the Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center. And also for her "outstanding contribution to the history and culture of Montana" - she was awarded the Heritage Award.

After a failed marriage at an early age, Johnson has always prided herself on her self-sufficiency.
She stated that her epitaph should read "Paid in Full". Her grave in the cemetery in Whitefish, Montana, simply says "PAID".
She died on November 11, 1984 at the age of 78.