What is "utes"

Usage examples of "utes".

Ute country and the Utes had long been after his hair, he checked his many weapons as he advanced.

He was ready for trouble should it come, but he preferred to avoid fighting the Utes if he could.

He kept one eye on Cain and the other on the valley on the chance the Utes might return ahead of schedule.

So far as he knew, no other white man had ever taken a Ute woman for his wife simply because the Utes either drove off or killed any whites they found in their territory.

While not as bloodthirsty as the widely feared Blackfeet, the Utes were a proud, independent tribe who fiercely prevented any attempts by outsiders to penetrate their domain, and they had been doing this for more years than anyone could remember.

During the last century, when the Spanish were spreading their dominion over the southwest and often venturing into the rugged Rockies, the Utes had repeatedly raided Spanish settlements, driving off large numbers of horses in the process.

There were some old-timers who claimed the Utes had been among the very first Indians to own the animals that wound up totally changing the Indian way of life, at least for those tribes dependent on the buffalo for their existence.

Had the Utes not been on their trail he would have shot the buck for supper.

Cain could answer the rarefied mountain air was rent by the pounding rhythm of driving hoofs, and around the base of a hill up ahead swept the band of Utes, who broke into frenzied whoops of raging anticipation the instant they laid eyes on their quarry.

There must, he reasoned, be a shortcut through the hills known only to the Utes, or else the band had ridden like mad and circled around to get out in front of them.

Now the warriors were less than two hundred yards distant, and once the gap was narrowed to half that distance the Utes would use their bows.

There was plenty of forest to hide in, but he wanted a spot where the Utes would have a hard time getting at the two of them.

The seven Utes were charging up the slope, spreading out as they did, all with bows in their hands and firing as rapidly as they could nock shafts to their bowstrings.

Cain was stealing his horse, leaving him afoot, stranding him in the middle of nowhere with a band of bloodthirsty Utes about to close in.

Some of the Utes were stealthily working their way toward the boulders.