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Fascinating & horrific report of a family's capture, & the father's escape...
Fascinating & horrific report of a family's capture, & the father's escape...
Item # 694606
March 20, 1877
THE DAILY MEMPHIS AVALANCHE, Tennessee, March 20, 1877 The front page has half a column taken up with a fascinating report: "Stranger Than Fiction" "The Story of a Beggar's Capture by the Indians and Escape". A few bits include: "...in the spring of 1875 with his wife and family he left for the Black Hills...wended their way across the plains & over the lonesome prairies...several times attacked by bands of redskins...began to prospect for gold...number of Indians in the dead of night swooped down upon the almost defenseless families & took all prisoners...two tribes, Sioux and Arapahoes...prisoners were all treated with the most barbarous cruelty...says that the Sioux were engaged in the Custer massacre...from the scene of the dire & dreadful massacre...after the affair Sitting Bull rode into the camp flourishing at the end of a stick the scalp of Gen. Custer, & that Rain-in-the Face bore on the end of a pole the bleeding, gory heart of Custer's nephew..." with much more.
Some rubbing to a portion of the article (see photos) causes some loss of letters but no loss of readability.
Four pages, large folio size, a bit irregular at the spine from disbinding, nice condition. Folder size noted is for the issue folded in half.
Category: The Old West
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