The Lincoln County herald., 1872-07-17
TERMS or ADvER rssiNC
Five Years a S4sawi
How the Romance was taken out Of q
Yankee SchOolmarm.

How the Romance was taken out Of 4
Yankee schOolmarm.
From the Kansas City Times.1
The steamer Fontenslls arrived ct this
city yesterday morning. after . three
months trip TO Fort Benton aud the
mountains. Among her miscellaneous
cargo Of robes, fur, peltr;es and Nebraske
corn was female named Miss Amauda
Birbsr, nee Squsttiug Bear, who, 10 . 6t
Of fanatical romance, offered herself 10
1867 - u voluntary missionary to the
Bruls Sioux, then occupying the terri
tory between the Chey snus river and the
Big Horn Mountains, Daco,sh Territory.
Miss Barber created quite . sensation
in the Eastern States by her marriage
with q young Indian named Squatting
Bear, who accompanied party Of Sioux
to Washington in 1867. Mss Barbss
was at that time q clerk in one of tho
Departments at Warrington, in . posi-
tiou secured for her by Gen. Butler, be.
fore the impeachment fasco. According
to her own statement, made yesterday to
our reporter, she was firmly impressed
with the Ideally and perfection Of the
red men Of tho plains. She had read
everything relating to the Indian tribes.
from the reports Of the Commissioner Of
Indian .Affsirs down to the latest dime
novel. In II 6t Of enthusiasm or tempot
rary insanity, she offered horsslf to, and
bscaue the wife Of Squatting Bear, .
junior chief 10 the Lous Horn band Of
Brule Sioux, and with him and bis party
returned to the Yankton agency, whsrs
she was duly initiated into her new life
a. white .qu,w. Her romantic ideas Of
Indian life seem to have received terri.
ble shock since her introduction to her
new home aud relations, and though she
eudeavored to fulfil her mission % !
teacher aud missionary 10 the beet Of
her ability. her progress appears to have
been az slow as the proa rsss Of civililisa.
ton on the plains. She states that her
6rst great surprise was being required to
mount upon wild, vicious louy, and
travel without sadd . or attention over
tho country from the Missouri to the
White Earth river, a distance Of several
hundred miles. Her inability to make
the journey provoked mirth among her
husbands companions, aud 6ually sxas-
peratsd Squatting Bear until he bound
her with rope to the pony's back and
led the animal himself on the westward
trail. She WAS still more surprised to dnd
her husband possessed Of two other wives,
enc a vicious, dirty squaw Of forty years
of age. the other girl Of scarcely fsur.
teen years. Her life 10 his wigwam, or
tsspee, was not as bright and happy -
she expected it would bs. Her hus
bands absence was taken advantage Of
by her rivals to compel her to perform
the vilsst drudgsry, such % gathering
wood, cooking meat, and seraping robes
for tanning process, but during Squat
ting Bears presence at home, Miss Bar.
Der appears to have been better treated.
Her husband, in violent 6t Of passion,
killed bis Oldest squaw during tho 6rss
year she was with tho tribe. when, with.
out warning or notice she was hurried of
to the main camp Of the Brules, three
days journey towards the mountains. and
from thence she accompanied the tribe on
its annual buffalo hunt, where she became
sex form exposure and fatigue. She was
lett at temporary drying comp At Raw.
hide river, whsre she attempted to escape
nv walking to Fort Fetterman, . distance
Of sixty mils.. For this attempt she vas
beaten until nearly dead and then sold BY
her husband for three ponies to Chsy.
enns chief, who sported the expressive
sobriqust Of Coo Goose, or Baconsidss.
She was taken North 10 1870, and has
remained with the Cbeysnnss ever siacs,
until this sprius, when she made her ap-
pearanss at and claimed the protection Of
the authoriiios At Fort Benton. Misc
BARRIERS experience would ne doubt make
story more thrilling than that Of the
"Escap ped Man." She 10 4 woman rather
plain in appearance, skin tawny aud black,
eyes small, dark and expressive, vsies
rather masculine and. in fact, just such
woman - Mrs. Col. Anthony or Tennis
ClaAn would choose for second 10 ceu.
mand. Miss Barber converssd with our
reporter without the least difidence, aud
answered any question asked of her.
She says that 80 far 81 the romance Of
Indian life is concerned, she found nose
Of it. Her efforts to teach and reform
the young Indian children were treated
with indifference and contempt. She
learned tie Sioux language easily, but
the Cheyenne dialect vas harder to 40.
quire. She has . higher opinion Of the
Cheyennes than Of the Sioux. The
latter tribe, she says. are to blame fsI
nearly oil the thieving and numbering
done 10 the white settlements. She
found it necessary to paint aud color like
the rest of the tribe while che was with
them, and twice witnessed the murder Of
execution Of white men, one . soldier
belonging to the 32d United States In
fan,ry, who had been taken while ou
hunting, who was burnt sud soslpsd
the others we're two tsamstsrs, brought
! from Fort Mcpherson. All three wer,
turnt 1t n place called "Saddlers Hill,
in the Nrbrasks bad Lands"