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Show 55 tribe had captured her and another little girl and were torturing them outside the fort with the same aim: getting guns from the white men. Brigham Young had forbidden the people to fall into this trap in an attempt to stop the practice, but his brother-in-law, Charlie Decker, could stand the cries of the children no longer. He gave the Indians his gun if they would release the little girls to him. It was too late for one of them, but Sally was still alive, her skin slashed by butcher knives, into which the savages poked burning sticks. She was covered with ashes, her hair hacked off by knives, and of course nearly dead when Charlie got her. He took her to his sister, who bathed her, nursed her back to health, and incorporated her into the household. Kanosh saw her there on one of his visits to Brigham Young and offered him twenty ponies for her. "Sally is not for sale, " said Brigham. "She must choose her own mate." "Sally Indian. Must marry Indian, " Kanosh argued, but to Sally, brought up in one of the finest frontier households, the thought of being married to a wickiup Indian was abhorrent. She refused him. According to Susa Young Gates, a daughter of Brigham, he came one day into the kitchen where Sally was ironing, picked up a hot flatirn and pressed it to his bare chest, vowing that he would take it off only when Sally promised to marry him, which she did quickly. Sally repented of her quick agreement as quickly, but the promise was heavy on her and she took it up with Brigham. He left the choice up to her, but pointed out the better qualities of Kanosh, and that she could |