The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-28
MOUNTAINS CATTL QUEEN
Lectures on Her Wanderings in
the West.
is A PLEASANT SPEAKER
Attacked by Utes and Cheyenes on Her
Way From Colorado to Iowa-Made
to Run the Gauntlet With
Other Prisoners,

Great Falls, March 27.-Mrs, Nat Col
Inns, the Cattle Queen of Montana" of
Teton county is engaged in her annual
feat of astonishing the East. Just at
present she is in Minneapolis, and the
other night she delivered a lecture at
Manning college hall on her wander
ings in the Vest Of her performance
the Times has the following account:
THE lecture was illustrated by ex-
cellent stereopticon views which helped
greatly to an understanding of the sub
ject Mrs. Collins is pleasant speaker,
while she lacks the graces and charms
of a professional reader or lecturer
they are substituted by rare amount
OF natural talent and the power to put
herself in the closest relation with her
audience. Her voice is gentle and well
modulated, there is a sweet monotonous
ring in it which reminds one of the
evening winds. rustling through the
high prairie grass, which at no time
becomes tiresome. Perhaps the most
thrilling part of her story was when
she related how she. together with her
brother, attempted to return from Colo
RADIO to Iowa, where she, then - years
old, had planned to finish her educa-
tioll. :" HAlV Ell IOul6 they were at
tackled by large force of the Utes and
Cheyennes. Her brother was severely
wounded and she was taken prisoner.
Like the rest she was condemned to run
the gauntlet. She was wounded in the
neck by sharp tomahawk and carried
away for dead. Her friendship with
the chiefs little daughter saved her life
and she was taken care of. nursed back
to life and later on exchanged for some
Indian prisoners. Her description of
cattle life in Montana, bright and full
of the life on the ranches, telling how
cattle are raised and branded and last
of all shipped, were given in a manner
which held the closest attention.
Mrs. Collins spoke admiringly of
cowboy life and the title of Cattle
Queen of Montana which she bears is
evidently one that has been bestowed
upon her by love and deep esteem.
THE past 10 years Mrs. Collins has
spent among the mines and miners and
she is as thoroughly versed upon the
subject as men of lifelong experience.
The pictures of the Rocky mountains
were grand and beautiful, and in every
word spoken Mrs. Collins betrays the
deep love and admiration in which she
holds her faraway Western mountain
home. Mrs. Collins was among the few
women who, on April Is. 1898, attended
the opening of the coded strip which
had been purchased from the Blackfoot
Indians by the United States govern
ment and which is said to contain the
richest mineral veins in the world, and
where Mrs. Collins secured several
claims. She also has the distinction of
being the only woman who made a sue
cessful ascent to the Cheney glacier.
which is over 1900 feet in height, and
unusually difficult of ascent. She
spends her summers in the mining
quarters. supervising the development
of her mines. AT present she is on her
way to the East. where she will remain
for several weeks, lecturing at different
places near her childhood home in Iowa.
Mrs. Collins may give another lecture
during her stay in Minneapolis and the
announcement of such an event would
not fail to insure her an interested and
appreciat tive audience"