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F THE many students who attend the Washington State College but very few of them who have looked to the north and have seen the pointed hill known as Steptoe Butte, which overlooks the entire Palouse country, know the early history of that lonesome little knob and from whence it derived its name. I have had the pleasure of knowing an old Indian who is well acquainted with the facts of the case and who helped to guide Colonel Steptoe and his army on their disastrous cam- paign in 1856. WM. LEROY LA FOLLETTE. In his tepee on Snake River, Sat an old and feeble Indian; And his eyes were full of sadness, And his voice was full of sorrow As he told to me this story. Many snows ago, one springtime, When the birds sang in the valley, Came there to my lodge one mornii Colonel Steptoe and his army; Came he forth in all his glory, High of hope and full of spirit; On his way across Snake River, Out into an unknown country. For to see some hostile Indians. Asked he then for men to guide him Far across the land of bunch grass, To the falling Spokane River; There to see the hostile Indians And to make with them a treaty. With my tribesmen, I consented To go with his little army And to guide them on their journey To the falling Spokane River, To the home of hostile Indians, Far across the hills and valleys, Which were robed with waving bunch grass. Started we, and made good progress Till we ' d covered half our journey; Met we then with hostile Indians, By a river in a valley. Colonel Steptoe tried to parley, But to him they would not listen.
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So we fought with them a battle, Fought with them o ' er hill and valley; Till we used up all our powder, And our men were in a panic. Leaving all our dead behind us, And becoming wild and frantic, Cursing, yelling, whooping, bleeding, Ran we from that hovering darkness Till we reached the topmost summit Of a hill which lay before us. There we camped till daylight vanished On the crest of that good summit, Which was high and steep and pointed. And the Indians, with their war-cries, Camped on guard down near the bottom; Thinking that upon the morrow They would finish up the army. But there lay a path to safety Between two camps of hostile Indians, And, ere half the night had gone, We had made a safe departure From the death-trap on the hilltop— From the bold and savage warriors. Went we then back to Snake River, Where the birds were singing gayly, And the trees were all in blossom, And the God of Peace was with us. Thus it was their journey ended; Thus it was that Colonel Steptoe Fought a hard and losing battle On this hill which bears his name. And the old and feeble Indian Still is living by the river, Looking down into his campfires; Living now in recollections, While death ' s cloud is hovering o ' er him.
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