The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-04-06


nothin but Indians doin that sort of
business, and so we lit out.
There was only one place to go. and
that was up the mountain, and so we
went up chere. 1t amt a high noun
tain, but up to the top it's kind of like
fort. The sides, except one Of them,
run straight up for so feet or so, and
no one can't climb them. The other
! side slants down pretty steep. but so
you can get up all right. We had all
seed the place and had talked about it,
casuallike, before, sayin as how it
would be just the place to go If the In
dians got after us.
J "They was after us now, and we was
there. The only trouble was that we
! didn't have nothin with us but our
guns We had lit out so fast that all
the grub was left in camp. We knowed
that with the shape of the mountain
there want no danger of the Indians
gettin to us. for we could stop them
as fast as they tried to come up. But
j we was worried as to the grub ques~
ton.
Indians amt no fools. even If they
act like it sometimes. and them Nava.
joes soon made up their mind that we
had mighty little grub with us. They
found that out from the looks of the
camp, and. as they knowed that noun
tain as well as we did. they didn't try
to come up it.
For couple Of days we got along
all right. We was hungry, of course.
but we amused ourselves poppin at the
Indians whenever they showed from
cover, and when we hit one. as we did
now and then. it was almost as good as
meal. At least we tried to think it
was.
But an empty stomach is a pretty
tough thing to forget. and we We're be-
ginnin to wonder how long we could
hold out, when one mornin we seed
the Girl of Wild Horse Run She was
a-comin along our trail at The foot Of
the mountain. 1t was evident that she
didn't know that the Indians was there,
but. knowed they was out and was
comm to warn us in a general way.
LAS soon as we seed her we did our
best to let her know that she was ridin
into quick trouble. We started a
smudge with blanket and fired cou-
pie of shots to attract her attention.
She saw we was on the top of the
mountain. and she llnowed we was
there for our health. SO she turned and
lit out.
1.-THE Indians seen her about that
P time. and they took after her She had
/ good two mile the start. but her pony
had been on the road for some time,
, and it was gettin tired. Still there is
!, lots of spunk. in good mustang, and
, we all hoped that She would get away
, all right. AS she went down tile valley
| we could see that she was not headin
for the Run but for the stage station
! which was a good 20 mile away. We
, was doubtful; about her pony holdir
. out agi in the fresh ones of the Indians
for that distance. but there want moth
in we could DO to help her. and so VIZ
, staid where we was.
, 1T seemed to make the Indians kline
o of wrathy to have had her comm rount
. that way. and they began takin chance
, shots at u.s. They didn't hit any of us
4 but they made us lie low where befor,
8 we had been standin up and movil
4 round pretty much as we pleased.
4 ''All the rest of the day we didn't d.
I much but wonder how that there cir
I had come out of the fix she was in. |
was ali done to help us. and we know
q ed it, and that made us feel like w,
was responsible for her. Wonderil
;. didn't do no good but we was still a
it when we heard a shot down the val
y lev. 1t didn't come from where TIL
n Indians had camped. and we lighted
Il fire as signal like. When the fir
i blaZed up. there was some more. shots
o ut was Kind of dusky in the mornil
# then. and we couldn't see we'll, but W
a soon made out about 80 men comm u
% the valley. In a minute we seed the
% was white men. and then we knoWTe
we was all right.
ri I'VE come down from that mountai
+ almost as fast as we went up it. bu
Il the Indians was gone. They had vs
n moosed durin the night When w
20 come up tOathp men. we found the
If was LOT of freighters from the st;
n ton The girl was there. they salt
a She had beat the Indians out in til
70 race, but she was in pretty bad snap,
10 for she had one bullet clean throug
"a her. and another had broke her arm.
az I'VE went to the station as fast {;
ht we could. When we got there. we see
30 there was nothin we could do. II wa
10 too late for anything but to tell her W
ID knowed we owed our lives to her. 81
q. was too weak to say anything in al
40 swer when we told her. SO we ju!
n sat around and wet her lips when the
tv got dry and tried to do what we coul
IN to make her easier.
At ''She seemed to know all that was g
in on. and one of the eastern me
wv thought it might make her feel easi'
or If somebody prayed So he. bein Ii
Ia only one who i.nowed much about
nv tried it, and we all kneeled down, L
ed told us how we all knowed that Il
IN girl was dyin because she had give h
ye life to save ourn. and he told the l-o