Identifier: lifeinworldswond1886gerr (find matches)
Title: Life in the world's wonderland : a graphic description of the great Northwest, from the Mississippi River to the land of the midnight sun, including descriptions of Sioux Falls, Sioux City, Fremont, Lincoln, Kansas City, Ottumwa, Fort Madison, and all the wonders of the unrivaled Yellowstone Park, the mines and canons of the Rocky Mountains, the beauties fo the Oregon and Columbia Rivers, and the famous inland passage from Tacoma, Washington Territory, to Sitka, Alaska : descriptions of the old Indian battle fields, including the last battle field of General Custer on the Big Horn River, the stories of old trappers, freighters, miners, and Indian fighters, told in their own unique style
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Gerrish, Theodore, 1846-1923
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Publisher: (S.l. : s.n.)
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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roof; but the soldiersused their musket barrels as squirt guns, and succeededin extinguishing the fire. The besiegers then held a council of war, after whichthey demanded the surrender of the fort. This demandwas refused. They then .asked for a parley; and theirchief, who could speak French, wanted to discuss thesituation with the commander of the fort. There was ayoung man in the garrison who could also speak theFrench language, who asked the chief what he wanted tosay. The chief, who was concealed behind the bank ofthe river, began to talk. The young man answered thathe could not hear him; whereupon the Indian, to makehimself heard, raised himself a little above the riversbank, when the young man fired his rifle, and the chieffell mortally wounded. Having lost their chief, the Indians abandoned the at- 158 FORT MAD ISO X. tempt to destroy the garrison, and fled. They returned,however, with a large force the following year, and,being again repulsed, they once more besieged the fort.
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St. Joseph Cathedral. FORT MADISON. 159 cutting off all sources of supplies. The garrison wasreduced to the greatest extremity, and for a long timesubsisted upon a scanty supply of potatoes. But thesewere finally exhausted, and preparations were made toabandon the fort. They cut a deep trench from theblock house to the river, prepared a few small boats, setthe fort on fire, and embarked upon ftie river. So skill-fully was the movement made that the. fort was nearlyreduced to ashes before the Indians knew of theirretreat. The soldiers made a landing on the oppositeside of the Mississippi River, where the town of Warsawnow stands. Just then a boat load of supplies came upthe river. The soldiers determined to retreat no farther,and a new fort was built, which was called Fort Edwards. After the burning of Fort Madison, the first whitesettler was Peter Williams, who built his cabin near theruins of the old fort in 1832. It was my good fortune to visit Fort Madison this sea-son. I had heard

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