| prologue | mysterious | librarian |
| spell | ancient |
| scruffy | mission | swooped |
| Titanic | slipped | absolutely |
| magically | buckskin | fringed |
| mountain man | Great Plains | prairie |
| farther | rippling | slope |
| rise |
| admire | tepees | Native Americans |
| Lakota | tribe | neighed |
| quiver of arrows | warrior | rustled |
| galloped | research |
| design | moccasin | grazing pasture |
| coonskin | quills |
| saddles | reins | whoop |
| snarled | herded |
| buffalo | bison | stampede |
| alarmed | fierce | shaggy |
| furiously | bounded | dodging |
| veered | surrounded |
| medicine | trailed | peacefully |
| foolishly | frightened | courage |
| twilight | sacred | source |
| summon | chanting | ceremony |
| dawn | snuggled |
| platforms | strapped |
| gusted |
| represented | rarest | generation |
| Sioux | North and South Dakota | traditional beliefs |
| mammals | continent | survive |
| Yellowstone National Park |