Thrilling adventures among the Indians: comprising the most remarkable personal narratives of events in the early Indian wars, as well as of incidents in the recent Indian hostilities in Mexico and Texas . e horses and goods. Mostof the prisoners escaped. The Blackfeet made severaldesperate charges, but were finally obliged to a dozen of their number were killed and manymore wounded. At the time of this battle the Blackfeet tribe werewest of the Kocky Mountains, near the head watersof the Columbia, whither it is their custom to retireevery spring. Those attacked by the Crows werec
Thrilling adventures among the Indians: comprising the most remarkable personal narratives of events in the early Indian wars, as well as of incidents in the recent Indian hostilities in Mexico and Texas . e horses and goods. Mostof the prisoners escaped. The Blackfeet made severaldesperate charges, but were finally obliged to a dozen of their number were killed and manymore wounded. At the time of this battle the Blackfeet tribe werewest of the Kocky Mountains, near the head watersof the Columbia, whither it is their custom to retireevery spring. Those attacked by the Crows wereconsequently only an advanced party which hadcrossed the mountains earlier than usual. The Crowshad themselves been driven into the neighbourhoodwhere the fight occurred by the Sioux, who wereout in great force against them. At other times whenthe Blackfeet are absent, they usually visit that sec-tion of country. About a fortnight before the fight,a small party of the Blackfeet had attacked the guardat fort F. A. C, (the trading post of the AmericanFur Company,) killed one man, seriously woundedanother, and stole thirty horses. The whole afiair willserve to show the dangers to which the western set-. 419 SAVAGE PATRIOTISM. tiers are exposed, as well as tlie condition of constantwar and ferment in which the Indians of the greatWest are still engaged. The following anecdote is given in Notes on theMichigan Territory/ lately published : The Indians of Fond du Lac, a small village ofabout fifty men, from their pacific dispositions, werebranded by their neighbours, the Sioux, with coward-ice. Feeling indignant at this, thirteen of them,without consulting their friends, who were then nego-tiating a peace with the Sioux, formed a league torescue their tribe from the imputation on their cou-rage, and secretly penetrated into the Sioux they came upon a party of one hun-dred Sioux, and began to prepare for battle; but theSioux, seeing their small number, advised them
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