From the land of shooting waters to the peaks of the Coeur d'Alene Thimbleberries in the forest, elk grazing on the plain The People of the Coyote made their camp along the streams Of the green Wal...

From the land of shooting waters to the peaks of the Coeur d'Alene...Thimbleberries in the forest, elk grazing on the plain...The People of the Coyote made their camp along the streams...Of the green Wallowa Valle... they bred a strain of horses, the treasure of the tribe...Who could haul the hunter's burden, tu...The horse that wore the spotted coat was bo...Thunder Rolling in the Mountains...Lead the People across the Great Divide...There's blood on the snow in the hills of Idaho...But the heart of the Appaloosa never died...In the winter came the crowned ones near frozen in the cold...d a book that saves the soul...The people gave them we...And studied the talking paper, its ...In the shadow of the mission sprang up f...The plain was lined with fences, the plow blade split the ground...In the shallows of the Clearwater gold glittered in the pan...And the word would come from Washington: remove the Indian...The chief spoke to the People in his anger...n us to a wasteland of barren soil and sto...They fled into the Bitterroot, an army...Till the colonel saw his strategy and sent the order down...To kill the Appaloosa wherever it be foun...g, three times over the Divide...The horse their only sa...oosas perishod with the tribe...The people and the horses dying side b...Thunder Rolling in the Mountains said, "my heart is sick and sad....n now are freezing. The old chiefs are dead...The hunger take our spi...From where the sun now stands I sh...But more died of broken hearts far from the land that gave them...And the man once called Jos...A spotted horse of spirit wondrous wil...tening for thunder, the Appaloosa's living still