John Tanner: Growing Up a captive, Part XL
As the winter became more severe John Tanner returned to his “sunjegwum” where he had cached a supply of meat and was expecting to live on it for the remainder of winter. It was empty, it had been broken into and every pound of meat was gone. Hunger near he was compelled to go in pursuit of Buffalo which because of the sternness of the winter drove them to the woods so fortunately in a few days he killed a number of them. It happened one night, Old Woman and others of his f