. The Pacific tourist : Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes ... A complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads ... . to take one day at thesesplendid Springs, for the enjoyment of their fare-well pow-wovv, but it proved to be a bad medi-cine day for them. When they saw the com-pany of cavalry that had unfortunately beenexposed to their view, they ran out to gather inthair horses, which were (piietly feeding iu the the chief. He was seen, as the troops approached
. The Pacific tourist : Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes ... A complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads ... . to take one day at thesesplendid Springs, for the enjoyment of their fare-well pow-wovv, but it proved to be a bad medi-cine day for them. When they saw the com-pany of cavalry that had unfortunately beenexposed to their view, they ran out to gather inthair horses, which were (piietly feeding iu the the chief. He was seen, as the troops approached,mounted upon his liorse, with his wife and childbehind him, trying to escape, but when he foundhis retreat cut off, he ran into a pocket or draw, in the side of a ravine, with almost per-pendicular sides, where some fifteen other war-riors had taken refuge. He had a very fine horse,which he led to the mouth of this pocket andshot dead. He then took his wife and child andpuslied them up on the bank of the pocket,telling her, as he did this, to go and give them-selves up, perhaps their lives would be squaw and her child, a beautiful girl, wentstraight to Major North, and raising her handsiu token of subnussion, drew them gently over. INDIAN COSTUMES. vicinity of their camp, a mile or more was no time for delay. The troops andscouts charged down upon them with all theirspeed. The scouts, as usual, set up their infel-nalwar-whoop, and went in with a rush. The In-dians were wholly unprepared for the attack, andsome of them were quietly lounging in theirtents. In fact it was nearly a complete were all under the lead of Tall Bull, a notedCheyenne chief and warrior, and numbered aboutfive hundred men, women and children—nearlyor quite two hundred being warriors. Seventeensquaws and children were taken prisoners, andas near as could be estimated, one hundred andsixty warriors were slain, among them Tall Bull, his face and down his form to the groun
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