[181] Report of Captain Barnard E. Bee in _House Executive Documents_, 1st Session, 35th Congress, Vol. II, Pt. I, p. 351. CHAPTER XVII [182] Palmer’s _Incidents of the Late Indian Outrages_ in the _Hamilton Freeman_ (Webster City), July 23, 1857. [183] Hubbard and Holcombe’s _Minnesota in Three Centuries_, Vol. III, pp. 226, 230; Palmer’s _Incidents of the Late Indian Outrages_ in the _Hamilton Freeman_ (Webster City), July 23, 1857. [184] Hoover’s _The Tragedy of Okoboji_ in the _Annals of Iowa_ (Third Series), Vol. V, pp. 19, 20; Palmer’s _Incidents of the Late Indian Outrages_ in the _Hamilton Freeman_ (Webster City), July 23, 1857. [185] Hubbard and Holcombe’s _Minnesota in Three Centuries_, Vol. III, p. 234; Palmer’s _Incidents of the Late Indian Outrages_ in the _Hamilton Freeman_ (Webster City), July 23, 1857. [186] Palmer’s _Incidents of the Late Indian Outrages_ in the _Hamilton Freeman_ (Webster City), July 23, 1857. [187] Palmer’s _Incidents of the Late Indian Outrages_ in the _Hamilton Freeman_ (Webster City), July 23, 1857. [188] The gold with which they paid for their purchases was presumably a portion of that which was taken from Marble’s body.--See Hubbard and Holcombe’s _Minnesota in Three Centuries_, Vol. III, p. 227. [189] The Moccasin’s camp had been about six miles up the river to the north of Springfield, while the trading post here referred to was nine miles distant. Coursalle, or “Joe Gaboo”, was a well-known half-blood Sisseton Sioux. At all times Indians in small numbers were grouped about him; they were always friendly.--Hubbard and Holcombe’s _Minnesota in Three Centuries_, Vol. III, p. 226. [190] Hubbard and Holcombe’s _Minnesota in Three Centuries_, Vol. III, pp. 227, 228. [191] Palmer’s _Incidents of the Late Indian Outrages_ in the _Hamilton Freeman_ (Webster City), July 23, 1857; Hubbard and Holcombe’s _Minnesota in Three Centuries_, Vol. III, p. 228. CHAPTER XVIII [192] Carpenter’s _The Spirit Lake Massacre_ in the _Midland Monthly_, Vol. IV, p. 23; Mrs. Sharp’s _History of the Spirit Lake Massacre_ (1902 edition), pp. 94, 95; Hubbard and Holcombe’s _Minnesota in Three Centuries_, Vol. III, p. 229. See also a different version in Palmer’s _Incidents of the Late Indian Outrages_ in the _Hamilton Freeman_ (Webster City), July 30, 1857. [193] Hubbard and Holcombe’s _Minnesota in Three Centuries_, Vol. III, pp. 229, 230; Laut’s _Heroines of Spirit Lake_ in the _Outing Magazine_, Vol. LI, p. 692; Mrs. Sharp’s _History of the Spirit Lake Massacre_ (1902 edition), pp. 94-99. [194] Dr. Strong has been considerably maligned as one who upon the first alarm had become so terrified that he summarily fled south, leaving his wife and children to the mercies of an Indian attack. For a more charitable view see Palmer’s _Incidents of the Late Indian Outrages_ in the _Hamilton Freeman_ (Webster City), July 30, 1857.