| Show SHOCKMAN Bonny Nielson Dahlsrud Box 195 Salina UT 84654 Non-Professional Division Third Place Poetry He came child alore afraid aware Of only Indian ways Captured beat And trusting none then sold to strange and fairSkinned ones Same called hin Shockman rabbit feet In Indian tongue Two paths he walked two Lives in one Ute at birth white manSon Obedient gentle kind and true Yet from the Utes he mastered shrewd Their lands Were his their habits known He traded lives With trinkets for their dark-skinned savage hands No shoot good brave his words could stop quick knives hero in both worlds his legend stands The Manti people loved him so with death He didndie but lived through otherbreath Source Song OfCentury 46 Heart Throbs of the West by Mrs Kate Carter pp 154-156 Authorfeelings for Alma Shock Brown adopted Indian boy of James Brown |
