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reservation, who is believed to be a white woman and to have been stolen when a child from an emigrant on the plains. Her features and the tradition of the tribe point clearly to white parentage. but alter a residence of almost 40 years in tepees the white squaw, as she is commonly known on the reservation speaks only the Indian tongue and professes to have a recollection of nothing else hut squaws, warriors and medicine men.Attention was attracted to the white squaw a little more than a year ago, when a small band of Arapahoos came to Casper, a town on the border of the reservation to sell some trinkets. She was a member f the hand, and almost immediately drew remarks from visitors. She seemed almost as dirty and sunburned as the other squaws, but beneath the darkened skin were traces of a different race. Her hair was light in color, finer than that of the other •women of her tribe, and her eyes were a clear bine. At the same time, she appeared to be a favorite in the band, and received more consideration than is usually given to a full-blooded squaw. Her elotlics, blankets and even souvenirs, were of a better quality than those of her associates.interested in her a number of residents of Casper started an investigation concerning her parentage, and wiien lrom an old warrior heard the following tradition:•While passing through the state Sfi years ago a train of emigrant wagons was attacked by Indians and all of the whites were killed and except one little white girl. She was taken away by the warriors and then put in Indian dress. At the home camp she was taken in charge by an old chief and grow into a typical Indian maiden. She wm then given in marriage to IJrokou Horn.One night, while a white man was supposed to bo listening to a serenade, he heard the story of the captured girl He learned, also that a Kiowa buck had been negotiating for her purchase and intended to take her to Southern New .Mexico. The trader offered $ 1 .COO In cash for the girl. Ills offer was accepted and the girl was started toward the home of the Indian agency, a former owner of the girl, an old Arapahoe, demanded a horse and gun Iron) the trader. These, were given him, and the girl was free. Soon ai-terwards she readied the white settle-inent, and Inter became the wife ol William K. Cook son of former Judge Cook of Davenport, iowa. Six years after her capture, and soon alter her marriage, Mrs. Cook went to Still Duke City, where she met her father? Togo ther with his three suns, ho had escaped from the wagon train, which was burned by the Indians at Hock Creek.
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Davenport Daily Leader
Davenport, Iowa, US
Tue, Oct 22, 1901
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