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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 18: bucks and squaws. (search)
ear Truckee, three or four miles from Donner Lake, the scene of a wild winter legend, we dip into the valley of Humboldt River, a valley rising higher than the top of Snowdon; and are now among the savage mountain tribes-Utes and Shoshones-horse Indians, they are called, in contrast with the tamer savages of the Pacific Slope. At Winnemucca, called after a stout Pah-Ute war chief, we observe an Indian of another branch of the Ute family, wrapped in a thick blanket, leaning on a brand, and g seems, were out of luck; the snow is getting deep; elk and antelope are scarce; and they have sold her to a stranger, as they might have sold him a pony or a dog. The money paid for her will be spent in drink. By law, no whisky can be sold to Indians; but up in these snow-deserts, where is the magistrate to enforce the law? Are you taking her home to your own country? Ugh! he hisses through his teeth, the Pai-Utes of our family have no country left. The Whites have taken all our l
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 20: White Indians. (search)
Chapter 20: White Indians. Before the Mormons came into these mountains, they were known as friends of the Red men, and were called in mockery the White Indians. They professed to have solved the mystery, so puzzling to linguists and ethnologchief, or Colonel Dame, the Mormon bishop, was the man most to blame. All witnesses in the case describe the slayers as Indians, or as painted like Indians, or as dressed like Indians. Kanosh was a Mormon elder; and there is something of the Ute Indians, or as dressed like Indians. Kanosh was a Mormon elder; and there is something of the Ute in Colonel Dame. Nine years ago I wrote of these saints: Hints for their system of government may have been found nearer home than Hauran, in less respectable quarters than the Bible; the Shoshone wigwam could have supplied the Saints with aIndians. Kanosh was a Mormon elder; and there is something of the Ute in Colonel Dame. Nine years ago I wrote of these saints: Hints for their system of government may have been found nearer home than Hauran, in less respectable quarters than the Bible; the Shoshone wigwam could have supplied the Saints with a nearer model of a plural household than the patriarch's tent. . . . The saints go much beyond Abram; and I for one am inclined to think that they have found their type of domestic life in the Indian wigwam rather than in the patriarch's tent. Like