The Texas Republican. [volume] (Marshall, Tex.) 1849-1869, 1868-12-25
IAnora Brown.
THRILLING ADVENTURE az A NINE
sofa GIRL WIN INDIANS

fi'hH'r'tSs iHtf' liNtI sturdy
white haired frontiersman named
Walter Brown. He was one of,hosc
adventurous spirits ever TO bs found
in the van Of advancing civilization
always oouriing the free, wild air
Of the prairie, and rejoicing in the
profound depths Of uninhabiied for
es,s. Blu, the country grew more
and moro thickly settled, and Walter
Brown became uneasy His wife
had borne him a daughter, the bird
or fourth year Of their residence at
the head waters of the ST Croix
whom he called Leonora. She was
good girl, and the idol of her father
He purchased rife for her ahen
she was but twelve years of age, and
took the utmost pains in teaching
her the use of it, She was brave,
aud steady of nerve, aud very soon
acquired wonderful skill as sho,
and the number of prairie chickens,
partridgcs, and wild water fowls, and
other small game she managed to
shoot each day, was really large
Oecasionly she would shoot deer,
aud one cyentful morning, by
lucky shot through the eye into the
brain, she killed a bear.
When sho came home with the
news her father could scarcely credit
her But knowing her perfectly
truthful nature, he danced about the
house for joy, and sciring the sturdy
little maid, he mounted her upon his
shoulders and insisted upon carrying
her all the way to the spo, where the
the dead brain lay.
THICKER and thicker flowed the
tide of the emigration into Miuncsso-
ia and MISUNDERSTANDING the
nayigahlo rivers as a matter ofcourse
and more uneasy and crowded
felt Walter Brown. At length his
wife died. Loonora was then sixteen,
and engaged to be married to a hand
some young trapper by the name Of
Watson, who had joined her father in
business.
The death Of the mother made it
necessary to postpone the wedding
in the interim old Walter decided TO
move into Northwestern Minnesota.
Neighbors were getting too near, and
hunting and trapping were bad As
the young man had proved up, pre-
emptcd and improved a quarter sec
ton Of land near Taylor's Falls, then
beginning to grow rapidly, he did
not wish either % abandon or soil it
just then, and, persuading Leonora
to agree to write to him whcn they
get settled be babe his an affection.
ate good bye.
Brown lived in Minnesota fer three
or four years in peace and quiet,
finding good trapping and hunting
grounds, when all ut once, young
Watson armed, and renewed the
proposal of marriage with Leonora,
Tho Old man had about determined
to move no more, and had according
" located aad pre-emptca several
thousand acres of land abou; him
and, learning from Watson that he
Ind money enough to do likewise,
proposed that he should 20 down to
st. Paul rnd buy land warrants with
his Nancy and take up all the land
aro,nd IL eonld "swing" and he
m;,ht III marry I,oonara and thew
Two wouiI GO ia work and after
building nlentv Of stabliug Get
wopld oct ON good stock of cattle
and sbeen and try and lead n quiet
pastoral life for the rest of their
auvs
To this proposition the Young
man heartily asscn,ed. and. after
,e,n,n;o, from St paol ho and old
Waller took their ares and went
b,,y.ly a, wo,L !, ,he woods falling
trees for building PURPOSES. IL was
ag,ccd nj first tia, ,bey should
bnild n new hewed log house for ia.
united family as Walter had only pu,
small sipole.room cabin and then.
,ho wedJing was In tale Mace and
,bc ,wo man vera TO resume their
yorl Willis Inns busilv oneaped
,Lo s;ox war broke on, II was The
h,b;,oe Leo,oratotake her rife overy
mo,n;ns and shoe, prairie chickens
c,r DO t,hlc wb,le her lover and
c,,bor we're hard At work ON tho new
honsc Watson had brought her rs
nrcsent from 81 Paul n light and
handsome revolv;,, riae Of which
she ,y,s ;n,,c,seIv fond and which
sho Loc,mc 90 crncr, that she could
H., b. I,cl mr. , nr,;ric chicken ON
,be vino with almost absolute Ger.
,ai,,y
IA por,;,c "a she was strollinc
"a ,bo i.Io ina in hand shc
no,;cod ,brco c,noe. loads of Indians
lil;no .Iono tho onnos;te aide of
H. ,.,er s,o,1;lv and s,eal,bilv an.
,ro,h;oc tho snot where her father
RI 80. ... :, uo,l sbe Ala M,
;,a,,a1;a,e,y a,nrebe,d anv tragedy