The Republican journal., 1872-07-18
Adventures 0f Romantic Young Woman.

| The telegraph day or two ago report
| Ell the escape from the Indians OF II wo-
man named Amanda Barber formerly OF
Milford, Mass, who in Il fit of romance
married Sioux Indian chief at Washing
ton few Years ago. and accompanied
him to his home in Dukotah. with the iica
that She could perform the role OF . mis-
sionarv among the sava1es of that region.
Miss Barber arrived at Kansas City, Mo,
IN Il steamer, on the 18th ult., and the
Times of that place gives the following
narrative of her not very pleasing expert
ences
Miss Barber created quite a sensation
IN the Eastern States by her ma rage with
young Indian named Squattng Bear,
who accompanied Il party of Sioux to
Washington in 1867. Miss Bagber was at
that time clerk in one OF the departments
at w aShington, in a position secured for
her by General Butler. According to her
own statement, made Yesterday To our re-
porter, she was firmly impressed with the
reality and perfection of the red men of
the plains. She had read everything re-
lating to the Indian tribes from the reports
of the Commissioners of Indian Affairs
down to the latest dime novel. In fit of
enthusiasm or temporary insanity, she
Squatting Bear, Junior chief in the Lone
Horn band Of BruIe Sioux, and with him
and his party retnrned To the Iankton
agency, where she was duly initiated into
her new life as ii white squaw Her ro-
mantle idea Of Indian life seemed to have
received a terrible shock since her intro
duation to her new home and relations,
and though she endeavored To fulfil her
mission rs Il teacher and missionary TO
th', best OF her abilities, her progress ap-
pears To have been as slow aS the progress
of civilization on the plains.
She says that her first great surprise
was BENG required to mount upon wild
V1clous pony, and travel without saddle
on attention over the country from the
Missouri to The White Earth river, a dis
| tlnre of several hundred miles. Her in-
ability to make the Journey provoked
| mlrth among her husbands companions,
and finally eXaSperatcd Squatting Bear,
until he bound her with IA rot To The po-
ny back, and led TIN. animal himself on
| the westward trail She was still more
surprised to find her husband possessed
| "l two other wives one "A vicious, dirty
| sqnaw of forty years of AGE. the other Il
! girl OF scarcely fourteen wears. Her life
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