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Show Page 3 the beginning she was destined to be different. It was snowing the evening of May 25, 1878. The flakes flickered past the windows of the one-room dirt-covered log cabin which squatted near the Green River. They sifted down on the Indian camp two hundred yards away. Inside the cabin, "Doc" Parsons had just delivered the first white child born in northwestern Colorado. Her parents named her Anna. ** Ann's mother wasn't able to nurse her new daughter. Since there was no milk cow, some source of milk had to be found quickly. Buffalo Jack Rife, one of the interested bachelors hanging around outside the cabin had an idea. Soon he was on his way to the Indian camp to speak to Marcisco, chief of the tribe of Yampatika Utes, and to Muchekuegant Star, the medicine man. Back through the snow came Buffalo Jack with the medicine man. The Indian picked up Ann, and since the Utes didn't believe in coddling newborn babies, carried her bareheaded through the snow to the Ute camp. For the rest of her life Ann Bassett remained the robust, rugged person she proved herself to be as she was carried bareheaded and unwhimpering through the snow on the night of her birth. Star took the baby to the wickiup of Seeabaka, a Ute squaw who had given birth a few days earlier and could nurse Ann along with her own son. It was some weeks before a milk cow arrived, and until that time the faithful medicine man, |