. 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 ... . the braves in the ravine wouldall be killed. The troops and scouts staidaround this pocket, until satisfied that therewere no living Indians there, and, on entering,found sixteen dead warriors and one dead squaw,lying close together, among whom was Tall their raids in the Solomon Valley, they hadcaptured two white women, whose lives they h
. 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 ... . the braves in the ravine wouldall be killed. The troops and scouts staidaround this pocket, until satisfied that therewere no living Indians there, and, on entering,found sixteen dead warriors and one dead squaw,lying close together, among whom was Tall their raids in the Solomon Valley, they hadcaptured two white women, whose lives they hadspared for purposes worse than death, and at thetime this attack was made, they were still of them had been taken by the principalSioux chief, and the other was appropriated byTall Bull, whose wife, doubtless from motives ofignoraiit jealousy, was accustomed to give hersevere whippings, at least six days out of everyseven, and her body showed the marks where shehad been repeatedly bruised and lacerated byTall Bulls squaw. The white woman who wasappropriated by the Sioux chief, when he foundshe was likely to be rescued, was shot dead byhim, and only gasped for breath a few times af-ter being found by some of the officers, unable to. PAWNEE CHIEF IN FULL DRESS Utter a word. As near as could be learned, hername was Susanna. It was afterwards ascei-tained that she was a Xorwegian woman, andGeneral Carr, in his report of the battle, calls tiieSprings, Susanna Springs, after this woman, andnear wliich she was decently buried, and whichname they ought to bear now. When the charge was first begun, CaptainGushing of the scouts, passing by the lodge ofTall Bull, entered it. The chief, as beforestated, had fled with his wife and child at thefirst approach of danger, but in his lodge thereremained the other captive woman, whom hehad shot and evidently left for dead. She wasa German woman, unable to speak English, andup to this time, had supposed, from the presenceof the scouts,
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