The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1894-08-16
THE EEARLY YDAYS
The Movements of the Pioneers
of this Section Of Min
ncSOtd.
Sensational Narrative RELATING to
Chasing the Sioux In
dlanS.
Copyrighted. All rights reserved by the
Author, Charles E. Flandrau.)

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Twill now return to the expedition.
Skunk Lake was distant about one
hundred miles from the Yellow Medi-
cine Agency. As before stated, my
party left the Agency on May 23d.
On the 10Th they found the dead body
of Mrs. Mobiles, who had been killed
by her captors, because of her being
sick and weary, and in consequence
becoming burden to them.
On the 30th of May they arrived at
a camp of one hundred and ninety
lodges of Yanktons, and three lodges
of Ink-pa-du-ta's band. Here they
learned that Mrs. Thatchers had been
killed on the march from Spirit Lake
westward, and that Miss Gardner had
been sold to Yankton warrior of the
name of Wam-a-dus-ka-i-han-ki, or
the End of the Snake. They succeed
ed in buying Miss Gardner for two
horses, seven blankets, two kegs of
powder, one box of tobacco and some
other small articles.
My people we're afraid that Ink-pa-
du-ta's Indians might molest them on
their return with Miss Gardner, and
perhaps kill her. So, as matter of
safety, they obtained as an escort, two
sons of End of the Snake, who accom-
panied them to the agency.
The Yanktons were q very warlike
and powerful branch of the Sioux ma
ton, and the presence of these two
young men of that band, was as per-
feet protection, as would have been
q regiment of troops; the moral force
Of their presence being sufficient to
keep aloof all enemies.
Having staftsd ny sxpedition On It's is
return, with all that remained of the
white captives, I viii go back to Mrs.
Marble, When she arrived under the
escort of the two brothers, she was
dressed by their mother in the best
that the lodge afforded, and with the
jaunty squaw costume, very brown
cheeks, ear-bobs, short petticoats, trim
ankles, and neat moccasins, she made
rather an attractive looking woman.
The missionaries however,in the good
ness of their hearts (which attribute
does not necessarily involve good taste)
insisted upon rehabilitating her in
what they we're pleased to call more
Christian raiment so they stripped her
of her picturesque heather attire, and
enveloped her in an ill-ftting calico
dress, improvised for the occasion,
which, although, more Christian, was
a deadly assault upon beauty, either in
nature or art. On viewing the transfor-
nation L thought of the lines of Moore:
| ''The hereto girl of my soul shall fly,
To seek somewhere else a more orthodox
kiss?
No; perish the hearts and the law that would
try
Truth, valor or love by standard like this
| Under these depressing influences,
I took her in my wagon and drove her
from the Yellow Medicine to St. Paul.
When I arrived with my charge at the
old Fuller House, which stood on the
northeast corner of jackson and
Seventh streets, and was then the
leading hotel in the city, kept by
"Steve Long & Bro, the news spread
like prairie fire that one of the cap
tives had arrived. Having the best
interest of the poor woman at heart,
concluded that it was legitimate to
take advantage of the generous out
burst of sympathy on the part of the
st. Paul people, so I turned her over
to Mrs. Long, the landlady of the
hotel, with instructions to keep her