A Daughter of the Sioux: A Tale of the Indian frontierKing, Charles
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A Daughter of the Sioux: A Tale of the Indian frontier
King, Charles
Dakota Indians -- Fiction; Indian women -- Fiction; Western stories
The authorities of the Carlisle School and the police of Harrisburg
are hunting high and low for a young Indian known to the records of
the Academy as Ralph Moreau, but borne on the payrolls of Buffalo
Bill's Wild West aggregation as Eagle Wing--a youth who is credited
with having given the renowned scout-showman more trouble than all
his braves, bronchos and "busters" thereof combined. Being of
superb physique and a daring horseman, Moreau had been forgiven
many a peccadillo, and had followed the fortunes of the show two
consecutive summers until Cody finally had to get rid of him as an
intolerable nuisance.
It seems that when a lad of eighteen, "Eagle Wing" had been sent to
Carlisle, where he ran the gamut of scrapes of every conceivable
kind. He spoke English picked up about the agencies; had
influential friends and, in some clandestine way, received
occasional supplies of money that enabled him to take French leave
when he felt like it. He was sent back from Carlisle to Dakota as
irreclaimable, and after a year or two on his native heath,
reappeared among the haunts of civilization as one of Buffalo
Bill's warriors. Bill discharged him at Cincinnati and, at the
instance of the Indian Bureau, he was again placed at Carlisle,
only to repeat on a larger scale his earlier exploits and secure a
second transfer to the Plains, where his opportunities for
devilment were limited. Then Cody was induced to take him on again
by profuse promises of good behavior, which were kept until
Pennsylvania soil was reached two weeks ago, when he broke loose
again; was seen in store clothes around West Philadelphia for a few
days, plentifully supplied with money, and next he turned up in the
streets of Carlisle, where he assaulted an attache of the school,
whose life was barely saved by the prompt efforts of other Indian
students. Moreau escaped to Harrisburg, which he proceeded to paint
his favorite color that very night, and wound up the entertainment
by galloping away on the horse of a prominent official, who had
essayed to escort him back to Carlisle. It is believed that he is
now in hiding somewhere about the suburbs, and that an innate
propensity for devilment will speedily betray him to the clutches
of the law.
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