The Shasta courier., 1870-07-16
SH ASIA COURIER.
Miss Sarah Winnemucca,
From the Boise Cit, udabo) News.

From the Boise Cit, (Idaho) News
Harpers Weekly confirms highly poet
ical aliusiop to Sarah Winnemuccl, the
interesting daughter of Mr. Winnemucca,
Chief of the Plutes, whose gallant explOi.s
in stealing horses and cutting the tongues
out of deten -eless emigrants will long be
remembered by the people of Nevada and
Southern Idaho with feelings of just pride
and admiration. Now this noble aborgine
daug hter, Sarah-no less-is to come in
for share OF the hoLors which have been
lavished SO unsparingly in days gone by
upon her illustrious sire, ths old gentleman
Winnemucca. Miss Sarah, says Harper's
Weekly, has written(O very sagaclous
letter 10 Indian Commissioner tarker in
which she has eloqueutly ortrayed the
wrongs OF her race What internal noud
less some IF those Eastern peope are
We are not very much mistaken we had the
pleasure OF seeing, some years ago, Miss
Sarah at Camp McDermott Nevada. She
and a few other Interesting relics # the
noble red man" We're being tatted at tie
fort during that winter for the spring cLm-
paigu against Idaho emigrants. The eml
Grafton having stopped tor the season,
there were no other worlds to conquer"
so Sar4h aud her tribe wer: about IL fare
badly, as the supply dried scalps, grass
toppers and lice had beer exhausted.
heir condition excited the sympathy OF
Uncle San's boys at the fort, So that they
were iaken in aud cared for until spring,
when they resumed their tavorite pastime
of stealing and numbering But it is our
recUIlectlous Of Hiss Sarah We propose to
recite. Sarah was at that time about sweet
l6 or 20-it would be difficult to I'D -e Of
her exact age from her appearance, owing
to u careless habit sha had acquired Of
never washing her beautifully chseled
features. But as we had been taught to
ju ge the age Of a tree by the belts OF
growtl on its trunk, SO we made slather
at Mss Sarah age by the number of scales
Of greasy dirt which naturally accumulated
on the ridge Of her comely countenance
during the laps oil years. She was about
four or five feet high-how is that for
Lo and not quite as broad as she was
narrow. Der raven tresses, which had
been permitted to coy with the sportive
breeze, unbound, unwashed, snd uncomb.
ed, from her earliest childhood, stood out
in elegant and awry confusion from her
classicaly shaped coGese, which contribut
ed to her contour an air of romantic
splendor. Her styie of dress, though
primitive, closely asslmilated that worn by
her more fashion Bile sisters in Paris and
other Dig towns. 1t was the fashion of the
day, slightly exaggerated, consisting of an
elegant scarf, about a foot wide, cut from
an ancient horse blanket which was grace
fully girded round her delicate waist-the
circumference of which, owing to the scar
city of clover and fresh crickets at that
season, had materially diminished, over
which hung a beautiful set of skeleton
hoops These CT mpleted the toggery of
this sweet and simple daughter Of nature.
Her feet were encased in moccasins, and
showed evident indications of hard service
and long walks over the rocky hills and
sage brush plains, the mud of her native
heath, crisp and dry, clinging tenaciously
to her toes. And we are glad to be able
to announce that this divinity was treated
during her brief sojourn among the white
savages with the respect due her exalted
rank and birthright-as the only daughter
and heiress Of that noble old Chief Win.
nemucca If Miss Sarah has improved
her time as well since we saw her as she
evidently had previous to that date, we
have no hestancY in pronouncing her at
this day highly, cultivated and refined
young lady, well quail fed to write a "sa
gacious letter to Commissioner Parker" or
or to make valuable contributor to Har-
per's Weekly.