The state-line herald. (North Lemmon, Adams County, N.D.) 1907-1912, 1909-05-28
Thrilling Exploit
Is Recognized.

is heCOSnlZcu.
An event of Historical Signific-
ance will be commemorated at
Mobridge in the Unwilling of
a Monument. giving Due Re-
cognition to the Nobility of
Heart shown by a band of
simple Savages.
On June 18th and 10Th the town
of Mobridge will be the scene of
the unveiling of monument to
the memory Of the rescue of
several white women from a band
Of hostile Sioux by a courageous
little band of friendly Redskins.
The monument is the result of
the efforts of the Walworth Old
Settlers Association, who de-
frayed the expense Of the base,
while largely through their rep
reservations the state furnished
the monument.
This signally unselfish act on
the part Of a small number of
Indians living near Fort Pierre
fully deserved that slight recog-
milton, especially as it occurred in
the thrilling times of 1862, when
we'll nigh every Redskins hand
in the Dakotas was either reek-
ing with the blood of the innocent,
or reaching after the lives of the
lone settlers within their bound
aries. We publish below an
historical sketch. as it is from the
able pen of Doane Robertson,
Secretary Of the State Historical
Association of South Dakota,
appearing in his excellent school
history of the State of South Da-
kota, at the same time apologlzing
fer tie liberty taken, to the
author, as we'll as to the American
Book Company, who are publish
ing this worthy little volume:
During the outbreak in Minnesota,
small settlement of about fifty per-
sons on Shetak Lake, in what is now
Murray County, was attacked and de-
stroyed by band Of Indians under a
chief named White Lodge. who took
captive two women, Mrs. wright and
Mrs. Duly. and seven children. These
|captiyes were carried through South
and North Dakota to the Missouri
River, where they were discovered the
following November by Major Charles
+. Galpin, who was coming down the
river with small party of miners in a
Mackinaw boat. When at the mouth
of Beaver Creek in southern North
Dakota, Galpin saw an Indian camp
on the shore, and the warriors were
making friendly motions to him to
land He drew up to the band, when
Galpins sharp-eyed wife, an Indian
woman, discovered armed Indians
skulking in the underbrush, and she
gave the alarm in time. Her husband
cut the painter by which he had tied
the boat, with a single blow of the hat
chet, and received a fusillade of bullets
from the bank without damage. While
the boat was still within hearing, a
white woman ran down TO the river
bank and informed the boatmen that
there were a party of white captives
in the Indian camp. Galpin spread
this news as he passed down the river.
The first point that Galpin reached,
where he could give information, was
Fort Pierre, where there was trading
store There was a party of young
Indians, eleven in number, under the
leadership of mixed blood Indian
chief named Martin Charger, grandson
of Captain Meriwether Lewis the ex-
plorer, who were known to their people
as the crazy band, or fool soldier band
because they had taken an oath to help
the whites at any cost to themselves.
This band Immediately set out on
their ponies to reach the hostile camp
UP the river, and, if possible, effect
the rescue of the captives. Their names
were Martin Charger, Kills Game anG
Comes Back, Four Bear, Mad Bear,
Pretty Bear, Sitting Bear, Swift Bird,
One Rib. Strikes Fire, Red Dog. and
Charging Dog. Before starting they
had traded their furs to the trader for
sugar and other Indian delicacies.
They crossed the river at Pierre, go
ing north on the east side. The Sec
ond day they found party of Yank-
tonais encamped at the mouth of Swan
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