Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 655
they came to his camp andtold him he must die at four oclock. He pleadedwith them, saying, I am an old man ; let me go. I willgo beyond the Great River [the Mississippi] ; I willnever return. But they would not yield. Just thensome white men camp up, and one offered to exchange hishorse for him.… … GRAVE OF LEATHER LI 1S. holding his head in hishands. One of the Indiansthen stepped out andstruck him twice withhis tomahawk, killinghim instantly. In 1889 the Wyan-dotte Club of Colum-bus, Ohio, erected agranite monument tohis memory. It seemsto me that this is agood example of self-sacrifice.…
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