Identifier: thrillingadventu00fros_1 (find matches)
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: 1850 (1850s)
Authors: Frost, John, 1800-1859
Subjects: Indians of North America Indian captivities
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. W. Bradley Lowell, L. P. Crown
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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tribe, that sherather chose to expose herself to misery and wantthan live in ease and abundance among persons whohad so cruelly murdered her infant. In a conversation with this woman soon after-wards, she told us that her country lies so far to thewestward that she had never seen iron, or any otherkind of metal, till she was taken prisoner. All ofher tribe, she observed, made their hatchets and ice-chisels of deers horns, and their knives of stonesand bones. She told us that their arrows were shodwith a kind of slate, bones, or deers horns; and theinstruments which they employed to make theirwooden utensils were nothing but beavers teeth.Though they had frequently heard of the useful ma-terials which the tribes to the east of them were sup-plied with from the white men, so unwilling werethey to draw neartr for the sake of trading in iron,that, on the contrary, they retreated further back, toavoid the Athapuscow Indians, who made terribleslaughter among them both in winter and summer.
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An Indian Lodge. AN INDIAN LODGE. S27 The Blackfeet and the Crows, (says Catlin,) liketlie Sioux and Asinneboins, have nearly the samemode of constructing their wigwam or lodge; inwhich tribes it is made of buffalo skins sewed to-gether, after being dressed, and made into the formof a tent; supported within by some twenty or thirtypine poles of twenty-five feet in height, with an apexor aperture at the top, through which the smokeescapes and the light is admitted. These lodges, ortents, are taken down in a few minutes by the squaws,when they wish to change their location, and easilytransported to any part of the country where theywish to encamp; and they generally move some sixor eight times in the course of the summer, followingthe immense herds of buffaloes as they range overthese vast plains, from east to west and north tosouth. The objects for which they do this are two-fold: to procure and dress their skins, which arebrought in, in the fall and winter, and sold to theFur Company

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