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Identifier: storyofredfeathe00elli (find matches)
Title: The story of Red Feather : a tale of the American frontier
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916
Subjects: Dakota Indians Frontier and pioneer life -- Minnesota Minnesota -- Fiction
Publisher: New York : McLoughlin Bros.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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first time since his arrival on the spot he was forced to seethe probability of another failure. His career from the hour hebounded upon his pony and entered so eagerly on the raid had beena continual disappointment. He was angered and resentful towardthe supposed dead Red Feather, because he allowed himself to bebaffled at the beginning by a solitary boy. Tall Bears pride was stirred, and he was unwilling to confesshimself beaten after openly blaming his predecessor for failing tocapture the place with less than one-third of his force. But there seemed to be no help for it, unless he should preseverewith the fire until the logs of the house were forced into combustion.They must yield in time, if the effort was kept up; and he was onthe point of renewing the attempt on a larger scale than before whenhis attention was drawn to the sentinel on the hill, who uttered thestartling cry that horsemen were in sight to the northward. THE STORY OF RED FEATHER 87 . . -. - - r. - • . : FJ i .I
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More Sioux comin—open door quick.—Page 90 THE STORY OF RED FKATIJI.R w The chief and the warriors who were not already on the spot hurriedthither to learn what it meant. As I have explained elsewhere, this discovery did not take placeuntil near nightfall, when darkness was beginning to render sur-rounding objects indistinct. The long delay in the arrival of helpfor the children of the pioneer led Tall Bear to believe it was not like-ly to come before morning; but once more it looked as if Providencewas about to interfere to bring his wicked schemes to naught. The gloom overspreading stream and prairie prevented the Siouxfrom seeing the horsemen clearly enough to indentify them. Theforms were so shadowy and vague that nothing more could be learnedthan that there wrere about a dozen men mounted on horses, and rid-ing toward the cabin on a slow walk, as if not without some mis-giving. I* wras certain that while the sentinel on the hill commanded anunusually wide swreep of vision, he

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