61 1750, Mary Harris, a white woman. She had been captured in one of the colonies, by the Indians, between 1730 and 1740, and was then a girl verging into womanhood. Her beauty captivated a chief, who made her his wife in the Indian fashion of that day. The Indian tribes were being crowded back from the eastern colonies, and the tribe of Custaloga had retired from place to place before the white frontier men, until about About 1740 it found a new hunting ground in this valley, where the white woman became one of the inhabitants with her warrior, and where they raised a wigwam which formed the nucleus of an Indian town near the forks of the stream above named. Mary Harris had been sufficiently long with the Indians to become fascinated with their nomadic life and entered into all its romantic avenues, following Eagle Feather, her husband, to all the buffalo, elk and bear hunts in the valley, and whenever he went off w'ith a war party to take a few scalps, she mixed his paint and laid it on. and plumed him for the wars, always putting up with her own hands a sufficiency of dried venison and parched corn for the journey. She was especially eareful to polish
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy MTM4ODY=