[182] Palmer’s _Incidents of the Late Indian Outrages_ in the
_Hamilton Freeman_ (Webster City), July 23, 1857.
[183] Hubbard and Holcombe’s _Minnesota in Three Centuries_, Vol. III,
pp. 226, 230; Palmer’s _Incidents of the Late Indian Outrages_ in the
_Hamilton Freeman_ (Webster City), July 23, 1857.
[184] Hoover’s _The Tragedy of Okoboji_ in the _Annals of Iowa_ (Third
Series), Vol. V, pp. 19, 20; Palmer’s _Incidents of the Late Indian
Outrages_ in the _Hamilton Freeman_ (Webster City), July 23, 1857.
[185] Hubbard and Holcombe’s _Minnesota in Three Centuries_, Vol. III,
p. 234; Palmer’s _Incidents of the Late Indian Outrages_ in the
_Hamilton Freeman_ (Webster City), July 23, 1857.
[186] Palmer’s _Incidents of the Late Indian Outrages_ in the
_Hamilton Freeman_ (Webster City), July 23, 1857.
[187] Palmer’s _Incidents of the Late Indian Outrages_ in the
_Hamilton Freeman_ (Webster City), July 23, 1857.
[188] The gold with which they paid for their purchases was presumably
a portion of that which was taken from Marble’s body.--See Hubbard
and Holcombe’s _Minnesota in Three Centuries_, Vol. III, p. 227.
[189] The Moccasin’s camp had been about six miles up the river to the
north of Springfield, while the trading post here referred to was nine
miles distant. Coursalle, or “Joe Gaboo”, was a well-known half-blood
Sisseton Sioux. At all times Indians in small numbers were grouped
about him; they were always friendly.--Hubbard and Holcombe’s
_Minnesota in Three Centuries_, Vol. III, p. 226.
[190] Hubbard and Holcombe’s _Minnesota in Three Centuries_, Vol. III,
pp. 227, 228.
[191] Palmer’s _Incidents of the Late Indian Outrages_ in the
_Hamilton Freeman_ (Webster City), July 23, 1857; Hubbard and
Holcombe’s _Minnesota in Three Centuries_, Vol. III, p. 228.