Part 8 (1/2)

One evening I stepped to the door to throw out a washbasin of water and saw a large dog standing there I put the dish down and was going out to call hi toward the door he said, ”What are you going to do?” I said, ”Call in a dog” It was bright ht

He said, ”Let , ”The biggest kind of a timber wolf Be careful what kind of pets you take in here”

The upper part of the hotel where we lived the first winter, was all in one roo

So in that loft We did not have to open the s Most s in those days were not expected to be opened anyway The air just poured in between the cracks, and the snoith gusto It was not at all unusual to get up froht many pretty dresses and wore them too Those who first came, if they had money and were brides, were dressed as if they lived in New York City

We had a dance one night in our little log hotel It was forty degrees below zero, and very cold anywhere away fro stove The women wanted to dance all the time and so set the table and put on the bread and cake before the company came Five hours aftere went to eat, they were frozen solid The dish toould freeze too, as they hung on the line in the kitchen over the stove, while the stove was going, too

One uess we have soo in and see theest kind of an ox standing there chewing his quid He had just co call

All kinds of anie then

Mrs William Dow--1854, Little Falls

We ca in in 1854 It was built right on an Indian trail that paralleled the Red River cart trail You see that road out there? That is just where the old Red River cart road went That is Swan River and it went between us and that Our back door was right on their foot trail You could step out of our door onto it There is a big flat rock on the river up about four ned treaties to behave theot out of town You know our Indians were the Chippewas They oods Indians The prairies belonged to the Sioux They had always been eneood chief, too His tribe got suspicious of hiht he o-faced, so shot him, as they did his father before him He had married a white woman, so the real chief now is a white h He used often to drop in for a piece of pie or anything to eat He is buried upon the bluff here

Swan River Ferry was three h Long Prairie to Fort Abercrombie The Red River Cart Trail crossed the Mississippi River at Belle Prairie There was a mill at that little place

When the luans tie up in the river just outside that front door

The Indians were camped all around here They used to fill their s Once I was standing by the river and I saw a squaw co any fuss over it First she took it by the heels and plunged it in the river; then by the head and soused it in that way

Mrs Salome was a squaho had married a white man Her husband went to the war I used to write her letters to hin them with her cross She became very fond of as?” , ”are you afraid?” I did not reply

Then she said ”If you are, I'll hide you” She o into it with my children, but I would not

I liked her, but I remembered hohen the Indians had had a scalp dance, I had seen her shake one of the scalps in her teeth This was after she had married a white man I asked her if she did not like the Indians better than the whites and she said in Chippewa, ”If I do, why do I not stay with the of the outbreak the Sioux were sending runners all the tiet the Chippewas to join thee as well as English He had lived with theuise hio to the councils, so we all knew just as going on Old Buffalo, a chief, said, ”If you go to war, I'll be a white o away and stay by myself always” We knew at once when they fully decided not to join the Sioux

Finally I yielded to the entreaties of my friends and went down to St

Cloud to stay with friends until the danger should be over My husband was in the war One day so in your house” ”Well,” said I, ”if anyone can, I can,”

so back I went I found an old friend from further up the country there

We joined forces and lived there until the as over

One day in war ti his cow in the pasture It had a rail fence around it I could see what he could not--so in one of the corners of the fence stretching Sioux scalps over withes When they finished, they got up all at the sa hoop The cow kicked over theI think that Mr Hall made even better time and he never even looked around

The squaould often have ear ringsall around their ears It was not how good, but how h a winter the way they dressed, I don't see They wore only leggings, shi+rts, breech clouts and a blanket Their legs were no barer than a Scotchs in the bosom of their shi+rt, as well as in their belts They used to tuck butcher knives in their leggings If they were ever going to go on a tear and get drunk, e first cae of all their guns and knives

When the squaore , they were all painted black and always slashed the the last of the fifties, we never had any ood if you had for if you took ive you an order for e The Red River carts used to carove of trees over there We used to sell thelish silver money

Once we took some to the store and they were terribly surprised to see ht we must have hoarded it, but we told them that it came from the Red River drivers

Mrs William J White--1854

My husband, Mr White, started for Lake Addie, Minnesota Territory, in May, to join so had nahter The settlement, if you could call it that, was called Griot up his cabin and began clearing the land He and his friends did their cooking and only had two ht and dinner at three

One hot day they had just cooked a big pan of apple sauce and set it out to cool Some Indians on their way to a war dance at Shakopee ca all painted up First one and then another plunged his fist in that apple sauce and stuck it down his throat It must have skinned them all the way down, but not one made a sound, only looked hard when they saw the next one start in