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Title: The Pacific tourist : Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes across the continent, all pleasure resorts and places of most noted scenery in the far West, also of all cities, towns, villages, U.S. Forts, springs, lakes, mountains, routes of summer travel, best localities for hunting, fishing, sporting, and enjoyment, with all needful information for the pleasure traveler, miner, settler, or business man : a complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific Railroads and all points of business or pleasure travel to California, Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, Montana, the mines and mining of the territories, the lands of the Pacific Coast, the wonders of the Rocky Mountains, the scenery of the Sierra Nevadas, the Colorado mountains, the big trees, the geysers, the Yosemite, and the Yellowstone
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Williams, Henry T
Subjects: Union Pacific Railroad Company Central Pacific Railroad Company
Publisher: New York : H.T. Williams
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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the braves in the ravine wouldall be killed. The troops and scouts staidaround this pocket, until satisfied that therewere no living Indians there, and, on entering,found sixteen dead warriors and one dead squaw,lying close together, among whom was Tall Bull.In their raids in the Solomon Valley, they hadcaptured two white women, whose lives they hadspared for purposes worse than death, and at thetime this attack was made, they were still alive.One of them had been taken by the principalSioux chief, and the other was appropriated byTall Bull, whose wife, doubtless from motives ofignorant jealousy, was accustomed to give hersevere whippings, at least six days out of everyseven, and her body showed the marks where shehad been repeatedly bruised and lacerated byTall Bulls squaw. The white woman who wasappropriated by the Sioux chief, when he foundshe was likely to be rescued, was shot dead byhim, and only gasped for breath a few times af-ter being found by some of the officers, unable to
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PAWNEE CHIEF IN FULL DRESS. utter a word. As near as could be learned, hername was Susanna. It was afterwards ascer-tained that she was a Xorwegian woman, andGeneral Carr, in his report of the battle, calls theSprings, Susanna Springs, after this woman, andnear which she was decently buried, and whichname they ought to bear now. When the charge was first begun, CaptainCushing of the scouts, passing by the lodge ofTall Bull, entered it. The chief, as beforestated, had fled with his wife and child at thefirst approach of danger, but in his lodge thereremained the other captive woman, whom hehad shot and evidently left for dead. She wasa German woman, unable to speak English, andup to this time, had supposed, from the presenceof the scouts, that the fight was between Indians,and that whatever the result, there would be nochange for the better so far as she was concerned.As the captain entered the lodge, he saw thiswoman in a sitting posture, nearly denuded, withthe blood running down her

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