Identifier: outing53newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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river directly op-posite the Kinzie Mansion, by which a be-leaguered guard could either escape or ob-tain water—John Kinzie felt but smallalarm. His seventeen-year-old daughterwas the wife of Lieutenant Helm, of the fort.Another incident related by Mrs. Kinzieshould have put Chicago on guard. Twochiefs had been visiting the fort one after-noon. Mrs. Heald and Mrs. Helm wereplaying a kind of battledoor or tennis onthe lawn. The Indians looked at themcontemptuously. The white wives amuse themselves,said one, but it will not be long beforethey hoe our cornfields. Hardscrabble, or Lees Farm, was oc-cupied by a family of whites. TwelveIndians with painted faces had uncere-moniously entered and seated themselves.Painted faces meant evil. I dont like the looks of these, re-marked the French hired man. Theyare not Potties. If thats the case, answered an oldsoldier, we had better get away. Saynothing! Do as I do. The two sauntered out with as great anair of nonchalance as they could assume,
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Fort Winnebago in 1831—Portage City—where Mrs. Kinzie passed half of her life. and when the Indians asked them wherethey were going, pointed to the cattle yardacross the river and answered, for fod-der. They had not gone a quarter of amile before they heard the guns of thehostiles. Meanwhile, the fort cannon were firedto call all soldiers in, and extinguishingtorches, a few officers ascended the riverwith muffled paddles to warn settlers. The people either took refuge withtraders, who were friendly with the Indianslike the Kinzies, or stayed inside the fort,and all piazzas were planked up, soddedand sand bagged as for siege. There wasample supply of water, food, ammunition—what need for groundless alarm? Afamily more or less murdered by Indianswas not such an unusual thing in frontierlife as to put fear in the marrow of bravemen and women. Things went on verymuch as usual, except that the guards tookcare not to fall asleep in the sentry boxesand officers got their backs against

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