title: Path Of The Chief
author: Eddie Blanchard
description: Ed Blanchard has spent most of his adult life as an executive in the television broadcasting business. An avid outdoorsman, U.S. Military Veteran and perennial history enthusiast, he continues to trek the South Louisiana trails of Path Of The Chief. He lives in Carencro, LA.
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  ## The Chief
  
  
  ## Robert Lipsyte
  
  
  ![image](Images/logo.jpg)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  FOR MY TEACHERS  
  DICK GREGORY  
  AND  
  CHIEF OREN LYONS
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  [1](006-chapter01.html#chapter01)
  
  
  SONNY IS WIRED. All the way to the fight, he’s…
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [2](007-chapter02.html#chapter02)
  
  
  THE ARENA IS PACKED; every folding chair has a fat…
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [3](008-chapter03.html#chapter03)
  
  
  THERE’S A CAR WRECK and a stabbing ahead of us,…
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [4](009-chapter04.html#chapter04)
  
  
  WE TRAIL ROBIN’S OLD BMW to an all-night diner just…
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [5](010-chapter05.html#chapter05)
  
  
  PROFESSOR MARKS WAVED the four chapters I had faxed him.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [6](011-chapter06.html#chapter06)
  
  
  I JUMPED ON THE FIRST train back to New York.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [7](012-chapter07.html#chapter07)
  
  
  THE SUBWAY HOME was as hot and stinky and crowded…
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [8](013-chapter08.html#chapter08)
  
  
  THE RES LOOKED DIFFERENT to me every time. At first…
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [9](014-chapter09.html#chapter09)
  
  
  SONNY WAS SPRAWLED i