The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-07-29
A BLACK HILLS ROMANCE.
The Adventure Of One Of General Crooks
seouts-Rsse uing q Prisoner and
" ta@@.E Finding 8 Wife.

" #e.E Finding 8 Wifi.
Old Jimmy Kann0n is the hero OF a
romance. A real, complete, natural
romance, one that has never been in
print. The old man loves TO tell it,
and the main details have been fully
corroborated by others. His romance
is as follows : A few years ago Jimmy
was lettering about Fort Laramie, re-
eeiving his IS per day as government
scout and interpreter. One evening the
post was startled by the report that an
emigrant train had been m~assacred
about two miles and a half from the
fort. Worse than all a white woman,
a Miss Mary Brand, had been carried
of by the Sioux. Ramon volunteered
as guide for a company of cavalry. At
dark the cavalry halted for the night in
a ravine about ten miles northwest of
Fort Laramie, on the Rawhide trail.
| AL the white men in the train on the
Platte had been massacred, and no one
had been left to tell the story except an
Irishman, who died soon after being
found. He had been fishing with Miss
| Brand, some distance from the main
camp, when the Indian attack was
made. From him Ramon learned
enough to satisfy him that the Sioux
had gone over to Rawhide River. There
he resolved to 90 alone and ahead of
the soldiers, and if possible effect a res
cue. He reached the Indian camp
about midnight, and secured his pony
to a bush in the valley, and soon after
ward crawled into the Indian camp.
His long residence with the Indians
taught him where to look for the cap
tive. He was Dol lying fat on his belly
in the rear of the lodge containing Miss
Brand. He found one old squaw sit
ting in front of the lodge, humming a
doleful dirge, and on rising to the edge
OF the tepee or lodge he discovered
ANOTHER OLD HAG
seated near a small fire feeding a feeble
fame with straws. He also saw the
captive white woman lying with her
head to the outside of the tepee, less
than two feet away. He whispered
words of caution and cheer to Miss
Brand, who started up in alarm. This
startled both OF h squaws, and the one
on the outside walked round to the rear
Of the lodge, where she mel a sudden and
silent death at the hands of the old
scout. The other squaw suspecting
something wrong, gave the alarm.
| Quick as a flash Ramon raised up the
edge of the lodge and drew out the cap
tive, and throwing her upon his should
ers made a dash out into the darkness.
The camp was soon in an uproar. But
Kannon made his escape with his horse,
although an arrow had pierced his body
through. He took a course eastward
down the Rawhide, while the Indians
started toward Fort Laramie, which
was due southwark from their camp.
Finding himself getting weak from
loss of blood, Ramon drew forth the
arrow which had passed his body and
projected out in front, and filed his
buckskin shirt around the wounds with
wet mud, and then continued his flight.
At daylight he found himself on the
head Of Dry Cottonwood Creek, twelve
miles from Laramie. But the Indians
were between him and the fort. He
kept out of sight, and saw them meet
and engage the soldiers he had left the
night before, and made his way half
dead to Fort Laramie without being
discovered by the Indians.
THE SEQUEL.
The result is soon told. Ramon was
taken into the post hospital and his
nurse was Miss Brand, the rescued
white woman. She stood by the side of
the prisoner until he recovered, and be-
ing without friends or home, all having
been taken from her in the massacre,
she married the old scout. Mrs. Ken
non lives in Keytesville, a station on
the North Missouri Railroad, where
she waits longingly for this cruel wal to
end. Jimmy Ramon is now with Gen
eral Crook, and is one of his most trust
ed scouts. He is the last survivor of the
massacre of the Alamo, where his par
ents were killed. His early life, up to
the time he reached the age of manhood,
was spent with the Comanches, who,
with General Santa Anna, massacred
Davy Crockett and his brave band at
San Antonio.
Hon. S. F. Nuckolls returned to Chey-
enne yesterday, having attended two
first-class shows, the Democratic con
vention at st. Louis and the Centennial
at Philadelphia. Mr.. Nuckolls repre-
sented Utah and Wyoming at both
places. His brother Democrats refused
him a seat in the st. Louis convention,
but in Philadelphia his more generous
c%ountrymen gave him an equal show
with the civilized people from the States.
He was permitted to spend his money
and see the big things, as if he had not
been n of those benighted beings, a
citizen of a territory.
Like all rockrooted Bourbons, who
have become used to eating crow, MI.
Nuckolls thinks Tilden's chances are
very good. We think so too.
| Stage Robbery.
On Monday last, when the ~Sweetwater
stage coach had arrived at Pine creek,
a watering place a few miles south of
South Pass city, the driver, after water
ing his horses, stopped down to take a
drink from the creek, and on arising
was confronted by two masked men
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