Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-12-05
LENORA BROWN.
i Heroine Of Minnesota.
story Of the indian
Massacre.

90 the borders Of Green Lake, in Mime.
sofa, there lived . sturdy, white haired
frontiersman named Walter Brown. He
was ono of those adventurous spirits ever
20 he found in the van OF advancing civil
,atica, always counting the free, wild air OF
tbs prairie, and rejoicing in the profound
depths Of uninhabited forests. But the
coaa,ry grew more and more thickly settled
and Walter Brown became uneasy. His wife
hal borne him a daughter, the third or
fourth yssr Of their residence At the head
waters Of tho st. Croix. whom he called
Lcnora. She was good girl, and the idol
of her father. He purchased = rifle for her
when She was but twelve years of ago, and
took tho utmost piins in teaching her abe
use Of it. She was brave, and steady Of
nerve, and very sosn acquired wonderful
skiil as shot; and the number Of prairie
chickens aad partridgss, wild water fowls,
and other ANAL game she managed to shoot
Was really large. Ossasisnally she would
shoot deer, aud one eventual morning, ~
lucky shot through the sys into the brain.
she killed . bear.
When she came homo with the news.
her father could sesrcsly credit her. But,
knowing her truthful nature, he danced
abeas The house for joy, asd ssising the
otnsdy little maid, hs mounted her upon hs
shoulders and insisted upon carrying her
ill the way to the very spot where the dead
bruin lay.
Thicker and thicker aswsd the tide oil
emigration into MiNnsssta and wisconsin
followed the nsvigabls rivers, - . mai.
Ter Of osssss, and more uneasy sad "erow.
dsd" felt Walter Brown. AZ length his
wife died. Lsnera was then sixteen, and
engaged 70 be married 70 handsome ysuns
trappss named Watson, whe had joined
her father 10 business.
The death Of the mother made Il assss
sary 70 postpone the wedding. and. in the
interim, old Walter decided 70 nsvs int
northwsstsra Aisssssta. NsigAbers were
getting tee near. and hunting abd trapping
were bad. AZ the yeung man had proved
up. prs-smptisd and Improved . quarter
section Of land near Taylsr's Falls, then b..
ginning 10 grew rapidly. be did not wish
either - abandon Of sell il, just thss. and
persuaded Lsnssa to agree . write 70 him
when they get ssttlsd, he bads hse IN o.
fsstisnats goodbye.
Brown lived IN Northwsstsrn Mime
sofa in peace and quiet, andine COED
trapping and hunting grounds, whom,
I'll at oacs, young Watson arrived and
renewed the prsposal If marriage with
Lsnora. The old man had about dstsrmin.
"a to weve No mere. and had accordingly
located and pre-emptsd several Thousand
acres OF land about him; and, learninS
from Watson that he had money enough "a
do likewise, proposed ,hA, he should q
down 70 ST. Paul and buy land warrants
With bis money. and take up oil The land
around that he could "swine," and hs
might then marry Lsnora, and the two
would 90 to work, and, after building plenty
Of stabling, ETC., would get On . gved steel
Of cattle and sheep, and try and lead q quis
pastoral life for the remainder Of their livss
To this proposition the young man heart
liz assented. aud, after returning from St
Paul, he and old Walter took their axes an,
vent brassiy to work in the weeds. fsllin,
trees for building purposes. II was agreed
Ct Grst. that they should build new lol
hsuss fer the united family, % Walter he,
enly Pct up . small. single-rcemsd cabin
end then the wedding vas u take place, 40,
The I've men would rssums their work.
White thus busily engaged, the terrible
Sioux war bseks cut. Ii was the habit o
Lsnora to take her ride every morning an,
shess prairie chickens fer the table. Will
her lover and father we're hard at work o.
the new house. Watson had brought her
a. q present from St. Paul, light an,
handsome revolving rife, Of which she VA
immsnssly fond, and with which she bscam
% exper, that she could shoot = duck o
prairie chicken on the wing with almost al
seluts certainty.
Csc morning, - she Was strcl'in
around the lake. rife in hand. she no
tiesd three canss loads Of Indians pad
ding carefully a,oog the eppssi,s cid
Of the water, steadily and ssealthily aE
prcaching the spot whore her faiths
aad lover wsss q work. She did not im
nsdiatslv apprshsnd any tragedy, but |
some unaccountab,s wsy, she felt impslle
. remain and watch their movsments. 81
thseveeep concealed herself bshind the o
efa Gallea tsse, and eeesrvea their meeiena
WhtoA Gse1 0ses anA mere suspio1eus.-
1Asee Wseo I've lDdians u saeh saneo. q