Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1868-12-24

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Qn cha borders OF Green Lake, iE
Minnesota, there lived q sturdy
white haired fE0ptiefaman nau1ed
Walter Brown. He was oae q
those adventurous spirits ever TO hs
found In tina van OF advaneingcAvili7
zation, always courting tbs free, wild
air of tha prairie, and rejoicing In
I'm the profound depths OF uninhahi.
ted forests. But the country grew
more aud more thfckiy settled aIad
Walter Brown became uneasy. dis
wife had borne him a daughter, the
third or fourth year of their resi-
denee at the head waters of the sc.
Croix, whom he eaiied Ien0ra,
She was O good girl. and sele idol oi
her father. He purchased q rife for
her when she was but twelve years
fage, aud took the utmost pains tn
teaching her the Uss OF IL. She was
brave, and steady of nerve, and
very soon acquired wonderful skill
of a shot and the number of prair-
ie chickens and partrfdges, Wild
water fowls, and other small game
she managed 10 shoot was really
large. Occasionally she would shoot
q deer, and one eventful morning,
by lucky shoot through the eye
into the brain, she killed q bear,
{ When sile came home with the
news, her father could scarcely
credit her. But knowing her truth
fnl nature, he danced about the
house for 10y, and seiEing sturdy lit
tie maid he mounted her upon his
shoulders and i1sited upon carrying
her all the way to the very spot
where the dead bruin lay.
Thicker and thicker flowed the
tide OF emigration into Minnesota
and Wisconsin followed the navf-
gable rivers, as D. matter Of course,
and more uneasy and crowded y
felt Walter Brow. A length his
wife died. I,annra was sixteen, and
engaged TO be married TO q hand
some young trNpper named Watson
who had Joined hsg fathea La busi-
ness.
The death of the mother made II
necessary TO postpone the wedding,
and In the ii. .teriTn, old Walter de
cfsied 20 move into north western
Minnesota. Neighbors were get
ting too near, and hunting and trap
ping were bad. As the young man
had proved up, pre-entied ana i'm
proved quarter section OF land
near Tayior,s Falls, then beginning
20 grow rapidly, he did not wish
either to ahnadon or sell it, Just then
and pursuaded Lenora to agree to
write to him when they got settled
he baae her an afSsGaoaata good
bys.
Brown lived In Northwestern
Minnesota in peace and quiet, ind-
ing good trapping and hunting
grounds, when all at oloa. young
Watson arrived and renewed the
proposal of marriage with Lenora.
The old man had about determined
TO move no mora, and had accord.
ingiy located and pre-efntHd sevTal
thousand acres of land about him !
and, learning from Watson that he
had money enough to do likewise,
proposed chat he should go down 70
st. Paul and buy land warrants
with his money, and take up all The
land around that he could Swing, y
and he might then marry Lsnora,
and the two would go TO work. and
after building plenty stahling, etc,
would get on good stock of cattle
and sheep, and try and lead quiei
PASTORAL life for the remainder o.
their lives
To this proposition the youg man
heartily assentei, and, after return
Ing from St. Paul, he and old Waltel
took their axes and went bravely q
work In the woods, telling trees fol
building purposes. 1t was agreed
first, that they should build new
log hoass fuE the united family. a
Walter had only put up y small
single ruOsned cabin, and then ths
wedding was 10 take place, arle
two men would resume theil
| work.
While thus busily engaged, th'
terrible Sioux war broke out i
was the habit of Lenora Co take he
sifse every parning and shoot prairi'
chickens faE the tahla, while ne
lover and father were hard q
work Ola the new house. Watson
had hs0gght her, as presat iron
Sc. Paul, q Light and hapffsoTn
revolving rifle, Of which she wa
immensely fond, and with whicl
| she heeame. so expert that .sh
could shoot d duck OF prairie chick
en- on the wiQg with almost abso
i Iute certainty. 81 +
One moaning, as she was ssrolllnI
around the lake, rife In haRd, sh
/ noticed three canoe loads ef Indian
padding carefully along the opposit
| side Of the water, steadily and staad
thily approaching tha spot wffeT
lsaT father and lover were at work
/ She did not Immediately appreheaa
any tsagedy, has In yoIae anacc0uni
able way, she felt inpeIl6l To n
main and watch their movement
She therefore concealed herself be
hind the top of q fallen tree an
observed their nl0tiQus. wAie
grew more and more suspicious
There were two Indians In In eac
canoe, and after they had padals
steadily to O point where thiel
over hanging birch tree affnrde
: coneealaaent of their canoes, the di
/ embarked and crept carefully arl
: noislessly forward until they wei
7 within d fsw feet OF where the eaA
: unsuspecting men were choppsnl
4 Suddenly, with o yell that mad
I the forest siIlg, and which ecfot
+ and re-. echoed sososs the Apoad, 81
. lake. they sprang upon their vic
V inns and bQre them 10 the earth.
. Tenora sremhled With exciteme
. and apprehension, nothing less th'
: 30 witness the horrible buchery
i hex father and hvex at once. .
/. 4 Hut this did not seem TO be 8
I'll purpose of the indians for tyIl
the axTas of tie capslyes behil
Z them, they took Hhean ID the cafw
Il where taking ths old nan Into ~