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Title: Thrilling adventures among the Indians: comprising the most remarkable personal narratives of events in the early Indian Wars, as well as of incidents in the recent Indian hostilities in Mexico and Texas
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Frost, John, 1800-1859
Subjects: Indians of North America Indians of North America
Publisher: Boston, L. P. Crown & Co. Philadelphia, J. W. Bradley
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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n the fields,killed twenty of the tribe, and burned th* village.At the same time, they threatened the Americangarrison at Fort Kearny, ravaged and laid waste allthe surrounding country, and drove the tribes hostileto them from their usual hunting-grounds. On the26th of May, seven of their warriors entered theOttoe country and concealed themselves near a fieldwhich the Ottoes had prepared for planting their corn.Three squaws, who were approaching the village,were fired upon. Two fell dead ; the other gave thealarm. The warriors rushed out and pursued theSioux, who fled into a large weed brake. This theOttoes surrounded and set on fire, and, as the mur-derers attempted to escape, they were massacredwithout mercy. The war between these tribes is stillraging, (1849.) Mian ^mmawtyty* Catlin gives an astonishing account of the skillwith which the Camanche Indians of northern Texasmanage their horses. The Camanches, like the northern tribes, havemany games, and in pleasant weather seem to be
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J INDIAN HORSEMANSHIP. 409 continually practising more or less of them on theprairies back of and contiguous to their village. In their ball-plays and some other games, they arefar behind the Sioux and others of the northerntribes; but, in racing horses and riding, they are notequalled by any other Indians on the continent. Kacinghorses, it would seem, is a constant and almost inces-sant exercise, and their principal mode of gambling;and perhaps a more finished set of jockeys are not tobe found. The exercise of these people, in a countrywhere horses are so abundant and the country so finefor riding, is chiefly done on horseback; and it standsto reason that such a people, who have been practisingfrom their childhood, should become exceedingly ex-pert in this wholesome and beautiful exercise. Amongtheir feats of riding, there is one that has astonishedme more than any thing of the kind I have everseen, or expect to see, in my life—a stratagem of warlearned and practised by every young

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