. Echoes from the Rocky Mountains : reminiscences and thrilling incidents of the romantic and golden age of the great West, with a graphic account of its discovery, settlement, and grand development . ened thefirst path of civilization, by the side of a singing stream. Here, withhis wife and child and a single farm hand, he had driven his stake anddwelt in fancied peace and security. Often warned of Indian treach-ery and urged to abandon the location for one nearer the larger ECHOES FROM THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. 183 settlements, to which in time of danger he might retreat, the onlyanswer returned
. Echoes from the Rocky Mountains : reminiscences and thrilling incidents of the romantic and golden age of the great West, with a graphic account of its discovery, settlement, and grand development . ened thefirst path of civilization, by the side of a singing stream. Here, withhis wife and child and a single farm hand, he had driven his stake anddwelt in fancied peace and security. Often warned of Indian treach-ery and urged to abandon the location for one nearer the larger ECHOES FROM THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. 183 settlements, to which in time of danger he might retreat, the onlyanswer returned to such expostulations was : I have sought my homein the wilderness from choice. I am perfectly secure from Indian vio-lence because I follow the paths of peace. I bestow kindness and charityupon the Indians who chance to come my way, and I have faith intheir gratitude! And thus, deaf to all entreaties, he lived on in thewilderness. The wandering red man found food and shelter withinhis cabin, and he tilled the soil and gathered his herds and flocks abouthim. Suddenly, in the midst of this fancied security, the savage, for-getful of his charitable deeds, fell upon and smote with ruin this home. THE FARM-HANDS ESCAPEFROM INDIANS. in the wilderness. He saw the flames devour the roof-tree his ownhands had built to shelter wife and child; he saw the savage brain hisinnocent offspring, whirling it as a club by its little limbs; he saw hiswife brutally assaulted by the red demons who had her captive, andthen, amid her screams and supplications, scalped, stripped of herclothing, hung by her limbs and a stake sharpened at the end drivenlongitudinally through her body. The extreme refinement of savagecruelty and torture he beheld reserved for himself. The cries and 184 ECHOES FROM THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. groans of bis wife having passed away with her spirit, he now watchedwith agonized interest the preparations for his own anguish. Hebeheld the stakes driven securely in the ground to which
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