Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-05-21
FOUND HER IDEAL.
The Famous South Dakota Cowgirl
Meets Her Hero md Gets Married.

The Famous South Dakota Cowgirl
Meets Her Hero and Gets Married.
From the ST. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The recent wedding of Myrtle Morrison,
the famr,s Nowlin county girl broncho
buster, and Frank Dupree, a part-blood
Sioux, created quite a sensa ton among
the aristocracy on the Sioux reservation
and in adjacent territory. Miss Morrison
is handsome young cowgirl noted far
and near for her proficiency in the art of
horse training. She has had many ad-
mirers among the frontier beaux, but al
ways declared that she would never marry
anv man who could not ride, shoot and
throw a lariat better than she could and
as such men are extremely scarce, it APP
peared probable that Miss Myrtle was
doomed to lead life of single blessedness.
However, last fall, hay being scarce on
the upper Bad river range, her father re-
moved his family and stock to Big Plum
creek, a tributary of the Cheyenne river.
Here Myrtle first made the acquaintance of
the good-looking daring young half-breed
who has since become her husband.
Frank Dupree is a splendid horseman, a
thorough cowhand, and apparently devoid
OF fear. The Duprees are among the
wealthiest stockmen in the state, count
ing their cattle by the thousand and Frank
like many other half-bloods in that sec
ton, has received a very fair education.
Still, Myrtle was not much attracted to-
ward the swarthy youth until one day they
happened to be riding together, and came
in sights of a herd of sixty or seventy
buffalo, which the Dupree family have
raised on their own range from a few
calves caught years ago, when buffalo meat
was the principal article of diet for the
is kept from Strayirg far from the home
ranch by "Old Man" Dupree's cowboys.
they are fully as wild as their ancestors
who once blackened the prairie west Of
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The young couple rode up quite close to
the herd before the animals were aware of
their presence, and Frank, in spirit OF
bravado urged his broncho alongside of a
huge bull buffalo and sprang from his sad
die to the animals back. In an instant
the herd was stampeding madly across
the prairie, with the old bull leading the
van. Dupree's foolhardiness had placed
him in an extremely dangerous predica-
ment. If he jumped or fell from the buff
falo'S back he would certainly be tram
pied to death by the pursuing herd, and
if he retained his seat until the animal
tain that the brute would make a furious
assault upon him the moment he dismount-
ed. So all he could do was to cling to
the animals back and await an opportunity
to escape. But 1t was not until the herd
had run fully two miles that he saw the
least chance of leaving the back of his
novel steed and escaping alive. Fortune at
last favored him, and the animal ran for
some distance along a deep. narrow wash
out with almost perpendicular sides reach
ing to height of fully twenty feet. Here
Frank sprang from his seat and slid down
the bank of the depression just in time to
escape being trampled upon by the closely
following herd.
Meanwhile Myrtle had lassoed her COM
panion's horse and was hurrying after the
rapidly retreating buffalo. She reached
the spot where Frank had dismounted just
as he was climbing, dirty and bedraggled,
to the top of the ravine. The cowboy did
not feel very proud of his exploit. but,
nevertheless, the little episode had touched
o tender spot in the girls heart, and a
short time ago the bells of the Cherry
Creek Mission Church announced the we'd
ding of this typical frontier couple.