Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-09-02
A SPECIMEN INDIAN MAIDES.
Miss Wfnnemueca, the Indian Prin'
From the Boise City qdaho) News.

From the Boise City udaho) News.
Harper's Weekley contains highly poe
tie allusion to Sarah Winnemucca, the in
teresting daughter of Mr.. Winnemucca,
chief of the Piutes, whose gallant exploits
In stealing horses and cutting the tongues
ont of defenseless emigrants will long be re-
rnembered by the people of Nevada and
Southern Idaho with feelings of just pride
and admiration. Now this noble ahorigine
daughter. Sarah-no less is to come in
for share of the honors which have been
lavished so unsparingly in days gone by
upon her illustrious sire, the old gentle
man Winnemucca. Miss Sarah, says Har-
per's Weekly, s'has written ~ very saga
cious letter to Indian Commissioner Parker,
in which she has eloquently portrayed
the wrongs Of her race" What internal
noodles some of these eastern people are;
If we are not very much mistaken, we hao
the pleasure of seeing, some years ago,
Miss Sarah at Camp McDermlt, Nevada.
| She and few other interesting rellcs OF
| the 'snoble red man. We're being lated at
the fort during that winter FOR the spring
campaign against Idaho emigrants. The
EMIGRATION having stopped for the season,
| sthere were no other worlds to conquer, "
go Sarah and her tribe were about to fare
badly, as the supply of dried scalps, grass
hoppers and lice had been exhausted. Their
condition excited the sympathy of Uncle
| Sans boys at the Fort, so they were taken
| in and cared for until spring, when they
resumed their favorite pastime OF
stealing and numbering. But it is our re-
collections of Miss Sarah we propose to re-
cite, Sarah was at that time about sweet
sixteen or twenty it would be difficult to
Judge of her exact age from her appear
lance, owing to careless habit she acqulr
led of never washing her beautifully CHS
elled features BHtas we had been taught
to Judge the age of a cow by the wrinkles
| on her horns, or the age of tree by the
belts of growth on it's trunk, so we made
slather at Miss Sarahs age by the number
of scales of greasy dirt which naturally
accumulated on the ridge of her comely
countenance during the lapse of years. -
She was about four or five feet
high-how is that for sLo?"-and
not quite as broad as she
was narrow. Her raven tresses, which had
been permitted to coy. with the sportive
breeze; unbound, unwashed, and uncomb-
ed, from her earliest childhood. stood out
in elegant and awry confusion from hel
classically shaped eobese, which contrlbut
ed to her contour an air of romantic splen
dor. her style OF uresS, tHouSA pIilh1'
tive, closely assimilated that worn by hel
more fashionable sisters in Paris and Other
big towns. 1t was the fashion of the day,
slightly exaggerated, consisting of al
elgant scarf, about a foot wide, GU
from an ancient horse blanket
which was gracefully girded round
her delicate waist, the circumference o
which, owing to the scarcity of clover ant
fresh crickets at that season, had materi
ally diminished, over which hung beauti
full set of skeleton hoops. These completed
the toggery ofthis sweetand simple daugh
J ter of nature. Her feet were incased il
moccasins, and showed evident indication
of hard service and long walks over tn
rocky hills and sage-brush plains, the mu'
of her native heath, crisp and dry, clingin'
tenaciously to her toes And we are gla'
to be able to announce that this divinit
was treated during her brief sojourn amonI
the white savages, with all the respect du
her exalted rank and birth-right-as tn
only daughter and heiress of that noble oil
chief, Winnemucca.