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Blue Elk, Bear?s Brother, and his cub were headed toward the reservation. Blue Elk tricked Bear?s Brother into going to the reservation. Blue Elk got his ten dollars from the preacher after taking the boy to the reservation. The people here locked the boy’s? bear up in a horse pin here. A man named Benny Grayback looked over him here and changed his name back to Thomas Black Bull. Thomas got put in the dormitory here with a boy named Luther Spotted Dog. He didn?t like Luther or anything about the reservation. He didn?t like the food here and all the kids laughed at him because of his long braids and his real Indian look. Thomas caused a lot of trouble at the reservation and one day Benny Grayback told him that he was taking him back to his home. Benny lied to him and took Thomas and his bear to Horse Mountain. Here, Benny Grayback made Thomas let loose his bear into the mountains. Thomas hated him for tricking him like that. Then, one night Thomas snuck out of the reservation and went back to his lodge in the Bald Mountains. Finally, he made it to his lodge to discover that it had been burnt down. Thomas knew who had done it. It was Blue Elk. A few days after that some men at the reservation came and found Thomas. After he came back to the reservation, he gave up on getting out of it. He started speaking English, wearing shoes not moccasins, and cut off his braids. Thomas started becoming just a regular kid there. He did many jobs there. One job was to hear the horses. He would herd the horses and he learned how to ride a bucking horse during this time. Neal Swanson was the man in charge of the horses. He got mad after he found out that Thomas was riding his horses so he took him to Albert Left Hand to herd sheep with him. When summer came, they sheared the sheep and went to Bayfield to sell the skins. Then, while Thomas was browsing in a town, a man came to him and offered him a quarter if he could ride his horse. He rode the horse and this made the man mad. The man got on the horse after that and the horse bucked him off. This attraction drew a crowd of people. Then, the man said he would offer him a dollar if he rode the horse again.

Thomas rode the horse and the angry man gave him his dollar. A man named Red Dillon saw Thomas ride this horse and was impressed. He asked Tom if he would like to come and live with him and learn how to ride broncs. Thomas agreed to this and so did Albert Left Hand. Red called Thomas Black Bull Tom Black and that was the name that stayed with him. Then, Red got the permit to take Tom and they were on their way to Red?s home in New Mexico. Tom liked it here and lived with Red and a man named Meo. Within the next month, Tom learned how to ride broncs and was ready for his first rodeo in Aztec. Red used Tom to bet on and make Tom lose sometimes to get more money by tricking the people he betted with. In other words, he would make Tom ride in the first two go-rounds and buck off in the final round to make big money. Red would always go off and get drunk when he did this and go home. When he got home, Meo would rob Red of most of the money he won and leaves only a little left. Then, in a rodeo at Carrizzo, Tom broke his arm and called it quits for rodeo that season. The next spring they worked the early rodeos in Eastern New Mexico and Oklahoma and in the fall worked in little Colorado towns. It was the same thing over and over for Tom. In the winter of that season, Tom broke his leg. Then, Red bought a pickup truck and horse trailer from the winnings they had that season. The following years were pretty much the same old thing of rodeoing from town to town. One time, when Red was drunk, Tom traded in the truck for a used Buick convertible. Then, Red got sick and died. He died from a bad heart, riddled kidneys, and drinking too much. They give him a burial and a funeral and Tom and Meo were the only people living in the house. Then, Tom decided to join the pro rodeo circuit. Tom was so good at this he rode a horse a horse to death in his second year in the circuit. This task led to the name of Killer Tom Black. He broke his arm while doing that too. Then, Meo died. The cause of his death was unknown. The doctor said he was clear as a bell. After that, he went and burned down the barn and home because he said all that was here is painful memories and I don?t belong here now that Meo was gone. Tom was on his own after that. Within the following years, Tom Black became a living legend. Tom had killed six horses by riding them to death in those years.

Then, he went to a rodeo in New York. Here, he ended up getting hurt very badly. He was put in the hospital to take x-rays and the doctor said he would be there for eight weeks. Tom made a close friendship with his nurse Mary Redmond. She helped him recover from his injury and within the next six weeks he was ready to leave the hospital. Finally, he left the hospital and headed toward Pagosa, close to the Indian reservation. Then he met a man named Jim Woodward in town. He asked Tom if he would herd sheep for him in the Horse Mountains. Tom was unsure at first but finally he said he would do it till he got back on his feet in the rodeo. He saw a bear one-day while watching the sheep and it killed a lamb. Then, Tom quit his job of being a sheepherder. Tom was going to start rodeo again but he decided to track down the bear that had killed the lamb and kill it. He searched for over two or three weeks and finally found it. Tom was about to shoot it, but then he wondered why was he was going to shoot. He didn?t know so he didn?t shoot it. Tom decided not to go back to the rodeo. He decided to

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