Identifier: absarakaorwyomin00carr (find matches)
Title: Ab-sa-ra-ka; or, Wyoming opened:
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: (Carrington, Margaret Irvin Sullivant) 1831-1870. (from old catalog) Carrington, Henry Beebee, 1824-1912, ed
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life Indians of North America Indians of North America Crow Indians Fetterman Fight, Wyo., 1866
Publisher: Philadelphia (etc.) J.B. Lippincott company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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sland, near the post, as a rendezvous,and General Augur promptly sent a months ra-tions from Omaha, in addition to those furnishedfrom the fort. The name of Spotted Tail hasbecome so celebrated for his loyalty to obliga-tion and his exceptional respect for his Indianwife, that their portraits are given, as well assome incidents connected with their visit. Hewas taken upon an engine at Is^orth Platte sta-tion, then just established, and was Mdiisked byhis camp of wondering people at a speed ofnearly thirty miles an hour, as if some ironmonster was running away ^dth their chief. Helooked at a watch, held in the hand of the ac-companying otRccr, then at tlie driving-wheels,then made the motion of shooting an arrow,and then relaxed into his commonplace accept-ance of the facts. At one interview, when pipeshad done all possible soothing, and all were readyto talk, powder was asked for. When told thatthe Great Chief at St. Louis must first consent,he counted the estimated days of delay with
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Spotted Tail and Ma Squaio.—Brule Sioux. Page ; INDIAN AFFAIRS ON lllE PLAINS. 269 gruuts of unqualified disfavor. The quick useof the telegraph in his presence, and a quickanswer, restored his kind demeanor, and taughthim a little of the white mans craft. On oneoccasion a thousand rations were issued, andin an hour the sugar had disappeared. Aroundthe pile of bacon, flour, beans and hominy, acircle of nearly fifty old women danced, andtheir song of thanksgiving, as with shrill screamsand distorted faces they whirled and leapedand swung their bodies, was more as one mightimagine the rejoicings of fiends over somefresh soul lost, than as the expression of grate-ful hearts; and the horrid shrieks could onlyhave been more thrilling if they had been aformal prelude to the scalping of their honoredhost. Spotted Tail manifested profound respect forhis wife. When, with others of the band, theywere sufiiering extremely for certain medical ap-plications, which was attended to by Post Sur-geo

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