The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-09-12

an Indian 1KRiAen's Love for an un.
SortunAte Scout.

In 1868, when the Indians made
aid into Douglass and Ell Paso Coun.
lies, they sought hiding places in this
couutry, but the cayon of Deer Greek ID
TOO small for q covert. Turkey Greek
canyon gives more secure hiding place.
In the earlier days this country was
travelled more than it is ct present. 4
coach used to run to what is now known
rs Villa Park, (P. 7. Barnum's sub
d~ivision) from Denver and continue on
the Morrison and adjoining roads I'M.
til it reached a ranch owned by Judra
Reed, better known as the old Pennsyl-
vania House. The coach went south
through the foot hills that adioin 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 inyincible in council.
he cared little for women, and was ac-
customed TO regard all squaws as very
inferior creatures. The G olorado 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 we're about to yield
20 the white man.
Noted for his boldness and unheard
of i~ntrepidity, the wal chief resolved to
reconcile the opposing factions by a
grand coup d'etat. Calling all chiefs and
warriors to assemble on q certain day,
he suddenly appeared before them on
the topmost point of a great crag which
rises above the most romantic and beau
tiful part of the canyon, a spot known
as Glen Plym, where through groves Of
cottonwood Deer Greek, clear as crys-
tai, dashes along with a sound thaS is
wonderfully musical. How he got up
TO that height no one knows, but it was
10 be tried again soon after, as 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 a 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 disheartened. 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, . young scout, who, o mere boy
had come West In the days of Kit Carr
son, loved and was beloved by the In
dian maiden. He knew that Blazing
Star had contracted special hatred for
the young scout. Hence he resolved to
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 ~highwaymen,
and after q 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 into the canyon beneath, q
corpse. The father, finding bis 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 came 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 SO near TO the Coloradoans OF
to-day that it is not at all unlikely that
the legend had some foundation in the
lore OF q young man named Walters for
tn Indian chiefs daughter.-Denver
News.