The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-08-15
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In 1868, when the Indians made q raid
into Douglass and ;El PAso counties, they
sought hiding places in the country, bu.
the canyon Of Deer Greek Is to, small for /
covert. Turkey Greek canyon gives mora
secure hiding places. In the EARLIER days
thia country was travelled more than Il Ia
ct present \ "A coach used 10 run To what
| 10 now known .as Villa Park (P. 7, Bar.
nuns RubdiyiBion) from Denver and con.
tinue on the Morrison and adjoining
roads until 1t reached rancho owned BY
Judge Reed, better known as the old Penn.
sylvania House. The coach went south
through the foot hills that adjoin MORT.
son to Fairplay. Among other Interesting
matters connected with Deer Greek and
the Platte country Ia the legend Of an old
Indian chief and his daughter. Blazing
Star, a,war chief Of the .Arapahoes, had al.
tanned the greateat influence among his
tribe. S:ern and impIacsble la battle,
earnest and invincibls in council, he
cared little for women, and was accus.
toned 10 regard all fQuaws % very inferior
creatures. The Colorado pioneers had
resched the country, and the great chief
felt very jealous of their approach. Bu,
doubt and uncertainty prevailed among
the tribe, and Blazing Star believed I hey
were ahont to yield to the white man, > y
Noted for his boldness and uuheard Of
intripidity, tie war chief resolve to rec.
onctle the opposing factions BY a grand
coup dttat: Calling all chiefs and warriors
to assemble on certain day, he suddenly
appeared before them on the topmost point
Of n great crsg, which rises above the most
romantic and beautiful part OF the canyon,
aspos known as Glen Plym, where, through
groves Of cotton wood, Deer Creek, clear Is
crystal, dsBhes along With a sound that ID |
wonderfully musical. How he got up to
that height no one knows, but 1t was 10 be |
tried again soon after, as the story will
show. Assuming that the Great Manltou |
Inspired him to stand there, the warrior |
addressed those In the glen below him.
urging them 10 relenttees war against the
pals lace. His cries for the white mans
blood were heard and answered, aud many
spea1e flashed In the sunlight at bis appeala
Bu: one old chief returned from the DOW.
40 sad and disheartensd. Laughing Eyes,
the chiefs daughter, WAS 80 beloved by Wag.
ul!a az II che had been his own child. HI
knew that one Of the pale faces, young
scout, who. q mere boy, had come west in
the days Of Kit Carson, loved and wsa be.
loved by tho maiden. He knew that B!sz.
log Star had contracted q special
hatred for the young scout. Hence he re.
solved to warn the young Rirl. His warn.
Ing came none too coon, but when the
maiden started Tor the settlement To warn
her lover she was beset by highwaymen,
and alter thousand perils escaped to find
tue settlement burned and her lover
prisoner in the hands Of her father. She
soon knew the worsL On the crag above
Glen Plym WAS the body OF her lover, who
had been laid there TO die OF starvation
and exposure. Shs attempted to scale The
perilous rock, but slipped and fell into The
canyon beneath, corpse. Z The father
[inding his daughter dead, and arriving In
tho same way ut the cause, succeeded by
The means he knew in reaching the ton Of
the Greg. But bis aid came too late, the
scout had brea!hed his last. z ~ z -
Z. Since that time it is said that in the dead
ot night cries are heard as Of the old In.
dian chief bewailing the loss Of his dauph.
ter, and other and ieebler cries as Of an In.
dian maiden weeping for her lover. So
runs this legend hardly old enough to be
called go, Tor u 9. old pioneers are so near
10 the ColoradoanB OF to-day that it is not
:. all unlikely that the legend had SONS
in the love Of a young man
named Walters for an Indian chiefs
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