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Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of graphic violence, death, racism, child death, animal cruelty and death, addiction, and sexual content. At the saloon, Arthur shares his suspicions with Doyle, citing evidence from Good Stab’s confessions. Arthur suggests that <a data-internal-link data-link-type="Character" href="https://www.supersummary.com/the-buffalo-hunter-hunter/major-character-analysis/#763889">Good Stab</a> may be hiding in a dugout somewhere nearby. Arthur sees Amos Short Ribs watching him from outside the saloon. Arthur snatches a black feather from the hat of another saloon customer and then presses the feather to his forehead in Amos’s view. Amos visibly reacts, so Arthur bribes Amos with a bottle of alcohol and asks him what the feather means to him.&nbsp; Amos shares that the feather reminds him of a medicine man named Happy. When Happy was a boy, he went to the mountain and experienced a vision of The Fullblood and his spirit buffalo. The account resembles the story Good Stab had told about the boy he saved from the forest fire. When Arthur asks to confirm if The Fullblood refused to take scalps, Amos tells him that he is talking about different people. Arthur does not correct his error.

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