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Most
famous
in
our
Western
annals
and
Indian
traditions
is
that
of
the
White
Steed
of
the
Prairies
;
a
magnificent
milk-white
charger
,
large-eyed
,
small-headed
,
bluff-chested
,
and
with
the
dignity
of
a
thousand
monarchs
in
his
lofty
,
overscorning
carriage
.
He
was
the
elected
Xerxes
of
vast
herds
of
wild
horses
,
whose
pastures
in
those
days
were
only
fenced
by
the
Rocky
Mountains
and
the
Alleghanies
.
At
their
flaming
head
he
westward
trooped
it
like
that
chosen
star
which
every
evening
leads
on
the
hosts
of
light
.
The
flashing
cascade
of
his
mane
,
the
curving
comet
of
his
tail
,
invested
him
with
housings
more
resplendent
than
gold
and
silver-beaters
could
have
furnished
him
.
A
most
imperial
and
archangelical
apparition
of
that
unfallen
,
western
world
,
which
to
the
eyes
of
the
old
trappers
and
hunters
revived
the
glories
of
those
primeval
times
when
Adam
walked
majestic
as
a
god
,
bluff-browed
and
fearless
as
this
mighty
steed
.
Whether
marching
amid
his
aides
and
marshals
in
the
van
of
countless
cohorts
that
endlessly
streamed
it
over
the
plains
,
like
an
Ohio
;
or
whether
with
his
circumambient
subjects
browsing
all
around
at
the
horizon
,
the
White
Steed
gallopingly
reviewed
them
with
warm
nostrils
reddening
through
his
cool
milkiness
;
in
whatever
aspect
he
presented
himself
,
always
to
the
bravest
Indians
he
was
the
object
of
trembling
reverence
and
awe
.
Nor
can
it
be
questioned
from
what
stands
on
legendary
record
of
this
noble
horse
,
that
it
was
his
spiritual
whiteness
chiefly
,
which
so
clothed
him
with
divineness
;
and
that
this
divineness
had
that
in
it
which
,
though
commanding
worship
,
at
the
same
time
enforced
a
certain
nameless
terror
.
But
there
are
other
instances
where
this
whiteness
loses
all
that
accessory
and
strange
glory
which
invests
it
in
the
White
Steed
and
Albatross
.
What
is
it
that
in
the
Albino
man
so
peculiarly
repels
and
often
shocks
the
eye
,
as
that
sometimes
he
is
loathed
by
his
own
kith
and
kin
!
It
is
that
whiteness
which
invests
him
,
a
thing
expressed
by
the
name
he
bears
.
The
Albino
is
as
well
made
as
other
men
--
has
no
substantive
deformity
--
and
yet
this
mere
aspect
of
all-pervading
whiteness
makes
him
more
strangely
hideous
than
the
ugliest
abortion
.
Why
should
this
be
so
?
Nor
,
in
quite
other
aspects
,
does
Nature
in
her
least
palpable
but
not
the
less
malicious
agencies
,
fail
to
enlist
among
her
forces
this
crowning
attribute
of
the
terrible
.
From
its
snowy
aspect
,
the
gauntleted
ghost
of
the
Southern
Seas
has
been
denominated
the
White
Squall
.
Nor
,
in
some
historic
instances
,
has
the
art
of
human
malice
omitted
so
potent
an
auxiliary
.
How
wildly
it
heightens
the
effect
of
that
passage
in
Froissart
,
when
,
masked
in
the
snowy
symbol
of
their
faction
,
the
desperate
White
Hoods
of
Ghent
murder
their
bailiff
in
the
market-place
!
Nor
,
in
some
things
,
does
the
common
,
hereditary
experience
of
all
mankind
fail
to
bear
witness
to
the
supernaturalism
of
this
hue
.
It
can
not
well
be
doubted
,
that
the
one
visible
quality
in
the
aspect
of
the
dead
which
most
appals
the
gazer
,
is
the
marble
pallor
lingering
there
;
as
if
indeed
that
pallor
were
as
much
like
the
badge
of
consternation
in
the
other
world
,
as
of
mortal
trepidation
here
.
And
from
that
pallor
of
the
dead
,
we
borrow
the
expressive
hue
of
the
shroud
in
which
we
wrap
them
.
Nor
even
in
our
superstitions
do
we
fail
to
throw
the
same
snowy
mantle
round
our
phantoms
;
all
ghosts
rising
in
a
milk-white
fog
--
Yea
,
while
these
terrors
seize
us
,
let
us
add
,
that
even
the
king
of
terrors
,
when
personified
by
the
evangelist
,
rides
on
his
pallid
horse
.
Therefore
,
in
his
other
moods
,
symbolize
whatever
grand
or
gracious
thing
he
will
by
whiteness
,
no
man
can
deny
that
in
its
profoundest
idealized
significance
it
calls
up
a
peculiar
apparition
to
the
soul
.
But
though
without
dissent
this
point
be
fixed
,
how
is
mortal
man
to
account
for
it
?
To
analyze
it
,
would
seem
impossible
.
Can
we
,
then
,
by
the
citation
of
some
of
those
instances
wherein
this
thing
of
whiteness
--
though
for
the
time
either
wholly
or
in
great
part
stripped
of
all
direct
associations
calculated
to
import
to
it
aught
fearful
,
but
nevertheless
,
is
found
to
exert
over
us
the
same
sorcery
,
however
modified
;
--
can
we
thus
hope
to
light
upon
some
chance
clue
to
conduct
us
to
the
hidden
cause
we
seek
?
Let
us
try
.
But
in
a
matter
like
this
,
subtlety
appeals
to
subtlety
,
and
without
imagination
no
man
can
follow
another
into
these
halls
.
And
though
,
doubtless
,
some
at
least
of
the
imaginative
impressions
about
to
be
presented
may
have
been
shared
by
most
men
,
yet
few
perhaps
were
entirely
conscious
of
them
at
the
time
,
and
therefore
may
not
be
able
to
recall
them
now
.
