The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-08-29
THE LEGEND OF GLEN PLYM.
An Indian Maiden's Love for an un-
fortunate Scout.

/. fortunate Scout.
In 1868, when the Indians made a
raid into Douglass and Ell Paso Coun-
ties, they sought hiding places in this
country, but the cayon Of Deer Creek is
too small for a covert. Turkey Creek
canyon gives more secure hiding places.
In the earlier days this country was
travelled more than it is at present. A
coach usedto run to what is now known
as Villa Park, P. Z. Barnum's sub
diyision) from Denver and continue on
the Morrison and adjoining roads I'M
til it reached a ranch owned by Judge
Reed, better known as the old Pennsyl-
vania House. The coach went south
through the foot hills that adjoin Nor
rison to Fairplay. Among other inter
esting matters connected with Deer
Greek and the Platte country is the le-
gend of an old Indian chief and his
daughter. Blazing Star, a war chief of
the Arapahoes, had attained the great
est influence among his tribe.
Stern and implacable in bat
tie, earnest and invincible in council,
he cared little for women, and was &C.
cnstomed to regard all squaws as very
inferior creatures. The G dorado pio-
neers had reached the country. and the
great chief felt very jealous of their APP
proach. But doubt and uncertainty
prevailed among the tribe, and Blazing
Star believed they were about to yield
to the white man.
Noted for his boldness and unheard
of intrepidity, the war chief resolved to
reconcile the opposing factions by a
grand coupd'etat. Callingall chiefs and
warriors to assemble on a certain day,
he suddenly appeared before them on
the topmost point of a great crag which
rises above the most romantic and beau
tlful part of the canyon, q spot known
as Glen Plym. where through groves of
cottonwood Deer Creek, clear us crys-
tai, dashes along with a sound that is
wonderfully musical. How he got up
to that height no one knows, but it was
to be tried again soon after, a. the story
will show. Assuming that the Great
Manitou INSPIRED him to stand there the.
warrior addressed those in the glen be-
low him, urging them to o relentless
war against the pale face. His cries for
the white mans blood were heard and
answered, and many spears flashed in
the sunlight at his appeal. But one
old chief returned from the pow WOW
sad and disheartene2. Laughing eyes,
the chiefs daughter, was as beloved by
Wagulla as if she had been his own
child. He knew that one of the pale
faces, a young scout, who, q mere boy
had come West in the days of Kit Car
son, loved and was beloved by the In
dian maiden. He knew that Blazing
Star had contracted o special hatre d for
the young scout. Hence he resolved tc
warn the young girl. His warning
came none to soon, but when the maid
en- started for the settlement to warn
her lover she was beset by hi%ghwaymen,
and after a thousand perils escaped to
find the settlement burned and her lover
a 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 there to die of
starvation and exposure. She attempt
to scale the perilous rock, but slipped
and fell in9o the canyon beneath, q
corpse. The father, finding his daught-
er dead, and arriving in the same way
at the cause, succeeded by the means he
knew in reaching the top Of the crag.
But his aid cam too late, the young
scout 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 the loss of
his daughter, and other and feebler cries
as Of an Indian maiden weeping for her
lover. So runs this legend, hardly old
enough to be called so, for the old pio-
neers are 50, near to the Coloradoans Of
to-day that it is not at all unlikely that
the legend had some foundation in the
love Of a young man named Walters for
an Indian chiefs daughter.-Denver
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