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Show 43- - AN IrJDliilT SCmE AHD RAID The story of the the family, told me by Elijah Thomas, Sr. M8ny times we have enjoyed of this pitality Indian raid good brother "rie had gathered on t ho Brigham Young's birthday. in the and big 11 at at consequently horses and boys uere being was there, horse with a driven off to the mountains. Men e e rvfc e had posse £1. suffered , loss, as Pinedale, among Charge! the thicket, so rear were a some to the sheltering ridge Knowing the horses 10, what did when the got we good Perkins the captain of \'lhen intruders. follow the into family had severe a good ani quickly organized ui th was The Perkins , cedars, Hebe gave the word, rushed riding circuleted that there I we the ho s many quickly of great excitement night before, , wer e friend and of the ·divide this side of of thick the run, on stock the was put in charge with Heber K. Perkins posse which woul c top render there .once ;lord minute's notice. a reDdy to everyone the on stolen and mals had been y to go raid old public square to celebrate President blood running fror its sides. a our wife and family. perlin Pl.umb appeared cro;:d. had been was we see? The crafty devils had tied the horses to the trees and shot many of them with arrows, to suffer and Wa.y. In the event . taction, so Indians, but men pressed of ran they on had to the __ to the old been to. this over .the in that divide and slipped expecting drav/ than was to for pro- overta.ke the antici)ated. decided to wait there thinking ranch and on They lay in the few.scattered ranches the d own for a the in The ?e t.hat little while and tried Bishop's lg bern." mDn, a- part of the. country, Peterson(Mortenson) anch f'ar t he r a.head good old concerned, leaving them were Indian scare an the cornfodder e:::..!cu1i8rL .... they their way make another raid Part of the terri tory. on as the posse follor/ed up the Indians I!1ight to rest far so die , ha.d made the people always . then, ·story here In a dramatic grmy elaborately. ·. ____"!UI __ |
