Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 544
eds, on horse-back and on foot, just as if all the evil spiritswe sometimes hear about had broken loosefrom somewhere. Nearer and nearer, louderand louder, that terrible war-whoop all the feathers stuck in every way; the well-cared-for papoose babies in their strange cradles ontheir mothers backs.… … colonel allen sent corporal knox to reconnoiter. (see page 1019.) time. You could see them distinctly: the big chiefs on ponies were all in war-paint,with yellow, red, and green faces, hair braidedwith strips of flannel, big elk-horn rings in rowsaround their necks; the ponies painted withmany…
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