. Chicago. corching August day,the Indians escorted them along the lakeshore till the feathered heads of fellow 13 Chicago savages peered above the yellow summitsof a cluster of sand dunes; then they dugheel into their ponies and galloped away. A brave frontiersman who knew theirtreacherous ways waved his hat in warn-ing; an incompetent captain ordered hismen to charge. They obeyed valiantly,though outnumbered ten to one. Snipingfrom behind the dunes till the ranks of thesoldiers were thinned, the blood-lusting In-dians rushed with tomahawk and knifeupon the women and children huddlingbeneath
. Chicago. corching August day,the Indians escorted them along the lakeshore till the feathered heads of fellow 13 Chicago savages peered above the yellow summitsof a cluster of sand dunes; then they dugheel into their ponies and galloped away. A brave frontiersman who knew theirtreacherous ways waved his hat in warn-ing; an incompetent captain ordered hismen to charge. They obeyed valiantly,though outnumbered ten to one. Snipingfrom behind the dunes till the ranks of thesoldiers were thinned, the blood-lusting In-dians rushed with tomahawk and knifeupon the women and children huddlingbeneath the white canopies of army wag-ons. At the end of fifteen agonizing min-utes the soldiers still alive surrendered totheir savage enemies, who danced on themorrow in triumph about the smoulder-ing embers of the little fort. That skirmish of barely more than acentury ago Chicago has called its Mas-sacre, and a monument depicting it hasbeen erected at the corner of Calumet 14 Site of the Fort Dearborn Massacre. The River of the Portage Avenue and Eighteenth Street. A com-memorative tablet, too, of the little stock-aded army post is embedded in the wallsof the saloon at the southern end of theRush Street Bridge, which with historicalirony bears the name of Fort the most blood-curdlingevent in all our history, the Massacrewas of slight moment, since the fort at therivers mouth was rebuilt, and garrisonedfrom time to time, until another CaptainWhistler marched its last force of regularsaway, just twenty years after the battle ofthe Sand Dunes. The Indians had risenagain, meanwhile,and under the surly chiefnamed Blackhawk had caused such a com-motion throughout the land that valiantold Fuss and Feathers himself broughtboth an army and an epidemic of cholerato our little fort. It was then that lankyAbe Lincoln, a country lawyer, shouldereda musket with the militia of his town. 15 Chicago During those stirring years the pack-trains which bore furs and peltries to JohnK
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