Part 14 (2/2)

The Indians during the tient were friendly and it was only upon a few occasions hiskey had been sled in by so themselves

The late Bishops Whipple and Knickerbocker werecompanions at different times thru the Indian country, as were General Mitchell of St Cloud, Daniel Sinclair of Winona, Rev F A noble of Minneapolis, Rev Stewart of Sauk Center, Mr Ferris of Philadelphia, Mr Bartling of Louisville, Doctors Barnard and Kennedy and others The late Ennegahbow (Rev John Johnson) was appointed by , the head chief

Ma-dosa-go-onas head chief of the Red Lake Indians and Hole-in-the-day head chief of the Mississippi bands at the tient

Captain Isaac Moulton--1857, Minneapolis

The an to rain and rained for three days as if the heavens had opened The river was frozen and the sleighing had been fine After this rain there was a foot of water on the ice I was on et insurance on ine what the roads leading fros were It took us a whole day to e loads of us

I have often thought you dwellers in the Twin Cities nowadays give little thought to the days when the stage coach was the essence of elegance in travel The four or six horses would start off with a flourish TheThe two rival coe effect If one driver had an especial flourish, the other tried to surpass hih powered, can hold a candle to those stage coaches in picturesque effect, for those horses were alive

On this trip, I hired asteers to take my trunk full of papers from the Zue was out, to Minnieski where we could again take the stage

Those steers ran and so did we eightthem in water up to our knees We reached Minnieski about as fagged as any e A Brackett--1857, Minneapolis

Prior to the Indian outbreak, I had charge of the feeding of the troops, co Stone's Division at Poolville, Md, with beef and other supplies In this Division were the First Minnesota, several New York (including the celebrated Taulars) and Pennsylvania troops I continued in that service until the Sioux outbreak, when Franklin Steele and ely and aid in the co a brother-in-law of Franklin Steele I ren, other St Paul and Minneapolisof supplies

Just after the battle of Birch Coolie, when General Sibley had asseo up the Minnesota River against the Indians, he sent Franklin Steele and ather up supplies for his coood horses A nues and other conveyances At that ties fro points

Allen, the ely A few ht” Immediately the whole party halted Allen went over the bluff far enough to see down to the botto, ”The valley is full of Indians” This caused such a fright that notwithstanding our protest, the whole party returned pell-ely, except Steele and myself The party was so panic stricken that Allen was nearly left He had to juo on

A rass I said to Steele, ”There's your Indian,” and drove up to hilish said, ”The Indians have stolena few miles further, we came to what had been Lafayette, burned by the Indians days before So

We stopped at the ruins of a house belonging to a half breed, Mrs Bush, and killed and ate two chickens with our other lunch When the refugees got back to the fort they reported to General Sibley that we had gone on He said ere reckless and sent George McLeod, Captain of the Mounted Rangers, with fiftyus back

However, we drove on so fast that McLeod got to St Peter about the ti hard tack, and purchased cattle andof the troops

One day, before this, while I was at General Sibley's ca toward the camp I called General Sibley's attention to it and he sent an officer to investigate It proved to be a friendly Indian who had stolen aand her children froht them to the fort Her husband had been killed by the Indians

Mrs C A S of 1858 we caularly between St Paul and Minnesota river points, to Chaska There we left the boat and walked to Watertohere our new hoold in inside pockets of a knitted jacket which my mother had made him With this money we paid for two quarter sections of ian to farm We lived just as we had in Sweden, as ere in a Swedish settle to church was our only amusement

The prairies were perfectly lovely with their wild flower setting There had been a fire two years before and great thickets of blackberry vines had grown up I never saw such blackberries They were as large as the first joint of a man's thuood Cranberries by the hundreds of bushels grew in the swain to pick all the hazel nuts We used to eat turnips as ould an apple They were so sweet, they were as good We round and could tell tirass and flowers I have never seen prettier ones We kept sheep and mother spun and wove blankets and sheets We had bolts and bolts of cloth that we ht with us fro,could be cozier than our cabin Christht solid silver knives, forks and spoons These hung from racks Quantities of copper and brass utensils burnished until they were likein rows In Sweden s of red, white and blue linen and these were always used on holidays How glad ere they were the national colors here! We covered a hoop with gay colored paper and set little wooden candle holders that my father had , all agloith dips Then, as a last touch to the decorations, we filled our brass candle sticks with real candles and set the across the lake A sheaf for the birds and all was done

The vegetables grew trerinding it, for bread, in a coffeeto eat of course you will grind” We ar from that

My sisters used to walk from Watertown to Minneapolis in one day, thirty-seven ood tiirls of today could walk that inable We used to catch them, and dry and smoke them They made a nice variety in our soh the ice, too

Major C B Heffelfinger--1858, Minneapolis

Well I remember the St Charles hotel as it hen I first boarded there The beds were upstairs in one rooers to Minneapolis They could find no accommodations so no unoccupied bed was safe for its owners Althoughand were paying for it, the only safe as for one to go to bed early before the stage came in and repel all invaders until the other arrived If the sentry slept at his post the returning scout was often obliged to sleep on the floor, or snuggle coer sandwiched between thee coach journey fro erect in the coaches, and were so tired that they went to bed with the chickens On lucky nights for us they were detained by so