Note 110 — Chapter XX · STAY AT FORT MC KENZIE, FROM AUGUST 9TH TO SEPTEMBER 14TH

Later glimpses of this renegade Bird are afforded by Townsend in our volume xxi, pp. 353, 354, who reports that he was a great chief among the Blackfeet, leader of their war parties, and in 1836 took a treacherous revenge upon Antoine Godin, one of Wyeth's engagés at Fort Hall. Father De Smet met Bird at the Rocky Mountain House of the Hudson's Bay Company in 1845; he speaks of his treacherous and suspicious character, which was proved when he deserted the missionary priest in the wilderness. See H. M. Chittenden and A. T. Richardson, Life, Letters, and Travels of Father Pierre-Jean De Smet (New York, 1905), pp. 526-528.—Ed.