Natrona County High School - Mustang Yearbook (Casper, WY)

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, D V ---7-77-?fff:f-1 -1- X ,,,.L,:, . F S N- xNx.21'N... H- -fg- .. One bright day in June, Blue Bell and her three friends Bright Star, Miunehaha and Red Wing were weaving fiower wreathes when suddenly they heard footsteps approaching. Blue Bell grew very frightened when she turned and saw some white men. She and her friends started to run but the white men caught them and carried them into the woods. Falling Snow, another Indian maid heard Blue Bell scream and saw them disappear, but she could do nothing. Now Sitting Bull, most noted of Sioux Indians and Blue Bell's father, was away with his war- riors fighting Custer so there was no one to rescue the girls. When Sitting Bull came home that night he found his squaw, Singing Robin, and his other three daughters, Black Bird, White Feather, and Early Morn in tears. They sobbed out the story of the capture of Blue Bell and her three friends. Sitting Bull grew pale and then angry because Blue Bell was his favorite daughter. After thinking a few minutes he quickly left his teepee, went to the center of the little village, and beat on a drum which called together the members of the tribe. Soon all the tribe was gathered around him and raising his hand for silence he said, My beauti- ful daughter, Blue Bell and her three friends have been kidnapped. Is there any man here who is brave enough to rescue thm. If there is let him speak for he may have his choice of the four for his squawf' Immediately a tall stately warrior stepped forward. What! You, Crazy Horse? said Sitting Bull. You of all these warriors? But it is good. You may Ho and may the Great Spirit go with you. So that night Crazy Horse set out on his mission. He traveled during the day and at night searched the White Men's villages for Blue Bell and her three friends. At the end of the fourth day he came to a town called Okaboji. Here he found the girls, guarded by one white man. Patiently he waited until about twelve o'c1ock that night when the man fell asleep, then he rescued the girls and together they fled to their native village. When asked who he would choose for his bride he said, What I did was for the good of my tribe. I have already chosen my bride: she is Humming Bird, the most beautiful maiden of the Dakota Tribe. 24 , V . ,. .... ..a.- Images not available

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V Q 0 ,D 1 A ,X : '? -- - Q -I.-.153 Cattlemen and Warne , - m :mil f W as H f Jr . is ,uf f wi 1..- f l Q 1, s 'li fe .1 ll Fir Q li f I ff l . M 3225.5 K K f g ' J. f fin ' fo Y I . F' I af or f e ll 1 ' , Yi zq -Q Voce , ,as-, V . J.'f ' CPYQXI- I mug K ,lille 2m,...,. 717,-le be! Many years before Wyoming became a state she numbered among her settlers a great many fearless men with ambitions and dreams which have been realized although they did not live to see the fulfillment. One of the bravest and most hospitable of these was Tom Sun, a dark-eyed, dark-haired man, thought to be of Canadian-French descent. No one ever tried to bluff Tom Sun, because they knew their bluff would be called, but if you played square with him, a more congenial man you never found. Quite late in life he married a Rawlins girl and they had one son, Tom Sun Jr., who is now living on the old ranch at Devil's Gate on the Sweetwater River. Another early settler was H. W. Davis, who came to Wyoming in 1878. He homesteaded some land at Sussex on the Powder River, which is not far from the present location of Salt Creek. Mr. Davis had married an Eastern girl before coming to Wyoming and she proved herself very capable of managing a ranch. Because Davis' initials were H. W. and because he was bothered by a cattle- rustler who passed by his place late in the fall of every year, folks called him Hard Winter Davis and today he is remembered by that name. About the same time that Davis was having trouble with cattle rustlers, a homesteader and his wife were having trouble with Indians down near the present cite of Chugwater. These homestead- ers were from Missouri and to them speaking with an Indian was an unforgivable breach of etiquette. So they looked at the Indians with disgust. Naturally the Indians resented this so they drove the homesteader out of the country. Hi Kelley heard of this incident and also of the good land around Chugwater. He went there and married an Indian maiden and in that way got many acres of rich land that he would not have otherwise had. He finally became a member of the Swan 6 Land Cattle Company but he remained faithful to his Indian wife. Two other old-timers that everyone has heard of are Major Frank Wolcott and J. M. Carey. Major Wolcott came to this territory in 1879 and started the VR ranch out on Deer Creek. He be- came widely known and very popular and today one of the important streets of Casper is named after him. J. M. Carey came in 1879 and he started a little cattle ranch near old Fort Casper. The ranch prospered until it was one of the largest cattle ranches in Wyoming. It was called the CY.ranch and the road leading to this was the CY road. Today this road is a busy street in Casper but it still bears the name CY. 6 . i . .T ..,. ff .,.., ., Images not available