National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-08-09
AN INDIAN MArpEN,s LOVE.
A Romance OF Colorado That Would
Fit Into One OF Cooper's Bomances.


Denver Nolrs
In 1868, when tho Indians made raid
into Douglass aud Ell Paso counties they
sought hiding places in this country, but
the canyon Of Deer creek is too small for
q covert. Turkey creek canyon gives
more secure hiding places. In earlier
days this country was travelled more than
it is at present. A coach used to run to
what Ia now known as villa park tP. T..
Bnrnum's subdivision). from Denver. and
continue on the Morrison and adjoining
roads until IL reached ranch owned by
Judge Reed, better known MS the old
Pennsylvapia house. The coach went
south through the foothills that adioin
Morrison to Fairplay.
Among other interesting matters con-
neoted with Deer creek and the Platte
country Ia the legend of an old Indian
chief and his daughter. Blazing star, q
war chief Of the Arapahoes had obtained
the greatest influence among his tribe
Storm and implaoablo In battle, earnest
and invincible In council, ho cared little
for women, aud was accustomed to regard
all squaws as very inferior creatures, Tho
Colorado pioneers had reached the coun-
try, and the great chief felt very jealous
of their approach. But doubt and uncer-
tainty prevailed among the. tribe, and
Blazing Star believed they wero about to
yield TO the white men. ~
Noted for bis boldness and unhssrd of
intrepidity, the war chief resolved to
reconcile all opposing factions by q grand
coup d'etat. Calling all chiefs and great
warriors to assemble on u certain day, he
suddenly appeared before them on the
top-most point of great crag which rises
above the most romantic and beautiful
part of the canyon, a spot known as Glen
Plym, where. through groves of cotton
wood, Deer creek, clear AZ crystal, dashes
along with sound that is wonderfully
musical How he got up TO that height
no one knows, but 1t was to bo tried
soon after, as tho story will show. As
suming that the Great Manitou inspired
him to stand there, the warrior addressed
those In the glen below him, urging thom
to relentless war against the pale face
His cries for the white man's blood
were heard and answered. and many
spears flashed in the sunlight at his
appeals.
But one old chief returned from the
powwow sad and disheartened. Laugh
ing Eyes, the chiefs daughter, was as
beloved by Wsgulla as II she had been
his own child.
Ho knew that one Of tho palefaces, a
young scout, who, nero boy, had come
west in the days Of Kit Carson, loved and
was beloved by the Indian maidpn. He
knew that Blazing Star had contracted a
special hatred for the young scout. Hence
he resolved TO warn the young girl. His
warning came none too soon, but when the
maiden started for the settlement to warn
her lover she was beset by highwaymen.
and after q thousand perils escaped TO find
the settlement burned and her lover o
prisoner in the hands Of her father. She
soon knew the worst.
On the crag above Glen Plym was the
body of her lover, who had been laid ther,
to die of starvation and exposure. She
attempted to scale the perilous rock, bu
slipped and fell into the canyon beneath
a corpse. The father, finding his daughter
dead, and arriving in the same way a
the cause, succeeded by the means h,
knew In reaching the top Of the crag
But his aid came too late; the young scou
had breathed his last.
Since that time it is said that in the
dead Of night cries are heard as Of the
old Indian chief bewailing tho loss of his
daughter, and other and feebler cries as
Of an Indian maiden weeping for hel
lover. So runs this legend, hardly ole
enough to be called so, for the old pioneer
are SO near to the Coloradoans Of to-day
that 1t Is not at all unlikely that the
legend had some foundation in the love o
dian chiefs daughter. As for the gh os
story, 1t is not out Of place in the roman
tic scenery Of the glen and the Grandeul
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