Identifier: outing51newy (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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Copyrighted. Abbie Gardner Sharp who was capturedby the Indians at Spirit Lake. som on the east sideof the river in casethe price first offereddid not free AbbieGardner. At last fora consideration of twohorses, powder, blan-kets and somethingmore, the young girlwas delivered over tothe mission Indians.For their work, thethree Indians receiveda reward of $400 each.They had accomp-lished what the whitetroops could not anddid not effect, though$10,000 was spent inthe expedition fromFt. Ridgely alone.June 22d, at 6 p. m.amid cheering multi-tudes, Abbie Gardnerwas taken from herboat to a hotel in St.
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The log cabin in which the Gardner family was massacred in 1857 and where Abbie Sharp was.taken captive and has to-day retired in her old age. 6q8 The Outing Magazine Paul. She joined asister who had beenaway during the timeof the massacre andin late years has livedon the old homesteadat Okoboji. Ink-pa-duta hadjudged human nature—especially humannature as exemplifiedin democracy—right-ly. He had commit-ted a great crime, andhe escaped punish-ment, and he washeard of again in theIndian wars. At thefamous Custer mas-sacre of a late day,as the white troopswere riding andcheering and flourish-ing their swords downthe bank to the riverbottom, an Indian was seen sitting fishingat the water side. The Indian gave thesignal to the other ambushed Sioux, thatsounded Custers death knell. The fisher-man was Ink-pa-duta. After the first wildhurrah for action had vapored off in fail-ure, the Government troops did absolutelynothing to follow up and punish the out-laws. It had come to the Governm

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