Identifier: reminiscencesofo01hunt (find matches)
Title: Reminiscences of an old timer: a recital of the actual events, incidents, trials, hardships, vicissitudes, adventures, perils, and escapes of a pioneer, hunter, miner and scout of the Pacific Northwest .., by Colonel George Hunter
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Hunter, George
Subjects: Hunter, George United States, West -- History
Publisher: San Francisco: H.S. Crocker
Contributing Library: Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Digitizing Sponsor: Corporation of the Presiding Bishop, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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theexception that the one acted from pecuniarymotives, while the others were prompted byprejudice and superstition to commit theirfiendish crime. I do not believe that the representatives of anyChristian Church would lend aid to or counte-nance so damnable an outrage, nor do I believethere is a particle of evidence that would lead areasonably intelligent and unbiased mind to thinkthey did. I will say that it is well known among oldpioneers, who have had any considerable acquaint-ance with the Indian modes and habits ofdoctoring among themselves, that when a medicine man loses a considerable numberof patients he is held responsible, and not 128 Reminiscences of an Old Timer. uufrequently his life atones for the offense ofhaving failed to cure. And the fact of Whitman having prescribedfor what to them was a new and strange disease,and the fatal results following because of theirown ignorance, led to the dreadful scenes atWhitman station on that fatal day. But I must return to the fight.
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CHAPTER IX. The Battle of Walla Walla—A Four-days Fight—IndianWarfare—First Blood—A Man for a Horse—The Battle-Ground — A Captains Ardor Cooled with Lead — I mKilled too Dead to Skin —All on Account of the Flag—The Proper Time to Come To—A Hand-to-Hand Struggle— /They Killed Yellow Snake— Murdered a Friendly Chief— Pope Paraphrased — Colonel Kelley s Question An-swered by a Bullet—Elkskin Protects the Backbone—AFatal Bust —Up a Tree—Bunch-grass Hats—KnockedOut by a Dying Medicine Man—Nick Raised HisHar —Ambushed and Scalped—Governor I. I. Stevens. WHEN we were first attacked, at the mouth,of the Touchet, I was riding a pony thatcouldnt have outrun a cow; and, not wishing tobe the hindmost man in case of a possible retreat,I stopped to change the pony for my fast mare,which I rode only when I thought a hard orfast ride might be necessary. Lint. Starr andDave White stopped with me, though they were eager for the fray, as a charge had been or-d

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