Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-08-15
AN INDIAN aAIDEN'S LOVE.
Romance of Colorado That Would
Fit Into One of Cooper's Romanees.

Denver News
In 1868. when the Indians made a
RAID into Douglas and Ell Paso coun-
country, but the canyos of Deer creek
Is too small for 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 is now
known as Villa Park (P. T. Barnum's
subdlvlslonl, from Denver, ard con-
tinue on the Morrison and adjoining
roads until it reaches the range own
ed by Judge Reed. better known as
the old Pennsylvania House. This
coach went south through the foot
hills that adjoin Morrison to Fair
play.
Among other interesting matters
connected with Deer creek AID the
Platte county Is the legend of an old
Indian chief and his daughter. Blaz,
ing Star. war chief of the Arapa
hoes, had obtained the greatest intlu-
ence among his tribe. Stern and
lmplacable III battle, earnest and in
vlncible in council, he cared little for
women, and was accustomed to regard
all squaws as very inferior creatures.
The Colorado pioneers had reached
the country, ard the great chief felt
very jealous of their approach. But
doubt and uncertainty prevailed
among the tribe, and Blazing Star be-
lieved they were about to yield to the
white men.
Noted for his holiness and unheard
of intrepidity, the war Chief resolved
to reconcile all opposing factions by a
great coup d'etat. Calling all Chiefs
and great warriors to assemble on a
certain day, he suddenly appeared be-
fore them on the topmost point OF a
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 as crystal, dashes
along with a sound that is wonderful
ly musical. How he got up to that
height no one knows, but it was to be
tried soon after, as the story will
show Assuming that the Great Mani
tou inspired him to stand there, the
warrior addressed those in the glen
below 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
appea S.
But one old chief returned from the
powwow sad and dishearten ed.
Laughing Eyes, the Chiefs daughter,
was beloved by Wagulla as if she had
been his own child.
He knew that orc of the palefaces,
a young scout, who, mere boy, who
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 a special hatred for
the young scout. Hence he resolved
to warn the young girl. His warn
ing came none too soon, but wnen the
maiden started for the settlement to
warn her lover she was beset by high
waymen, and, after thousand perilS.
escaped to find The settlement burned
and her lover prisoner in the hands
of her father. She soon knew the
worst.
On the cral above Glen Plym was
the body of her lover, who had been
1dJu lllefe 10 uIC Vi SldFNdtlOu anu SA-
posure She attempted to scale the
perilous rock, but slipped and fell IN.
to the canyon beneath, a corpse. The
father finding his daughter 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
breathed his last.
Since that tirse 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 pioneers are so near to the
Coloradoans of today that it is not
at all unlikely that the legend has
some foundation in the love of a
young man named Walters for an In
dian chiefs daughter As for the
ghost story, 1t is not out of place III
the romantic scenery of the glen and
the grandeur of the cliff