> A Crow chief named Plenty-Coups summed up what his mount meant to him:
>
> "My horse fights with me and fasts with me, because if he is to carry me
> in
> battle he must know my heart, and I must know his or we shall never become
> brothers. I have been told that the white man, who is almost a god, and
> yet
> a great fool, does not believe that the horse has a spirit. This cannot be
> true. I have many times seen my horse's soul in his eyes.".. . . .
>
> "My horse fights with me and fasts with me, because if he is to carry me
> in
> battle he must know my heart, and I must know his or we shall never become
> brothers. I have been told that the white man, who is almost a god, and
> yet
> a great fool, does not believe that the horse has a spirit. This cannot be
> true. I have many times seen my horse's soul in his eyes.".. . . .
