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General Ashley was to follow him, with reinforcements of another one hundred young men. He was met by a courier from his partner, asking for horses, horses, horses. He stopped to trade with the Arikaras, in present South Dakota; they suddenly attacked him, rolled him up, and stopped him completely.
"Seeing me determined, she hesitated no longer, and joined me in the meal. When we had finished, I asked her where she had procured the meat, and, with bowed head, she replied: "'Tu-Sam-Ba roasted Arikaras disturbed did not eat Tu-Sam-Ba, Sioux my husband. "Good God! I had eaten her husband, and the Prairie Flower had not hesitated to serve him up roasted to me!
"No," replied Wharton, vivaciously, "not before the next two hours." Clary laughed loudly, and the captain saw that he had committed a blunder. "I fainted," continued the captain, "and when I came to my senses it was pitch dark and I lay on the ground, bound hand and foot. By the flickering light of a camp-fire I saw the Arikaras sitting around and calmly smoking their pipes.
He had left the boat, the day before, to make a short cut to Fort Tilton, which lay around a bend. The Arikaras only chased him into the arms of two Mandans; the Mandans took him into Fort Tilton and that same night, such was his hurry, he set out alone again, on foot, for the Yellowstone and the Andrew Henry fort at the mouth of the Big Horn in Crow and the Blackfoot country.
But in the winter of 1832-1833 the Arikaras killed him, on the ice of the Yellowstone River, hard by the mouth of the same Big Horn where he had so astonished the Andrew Henry fort nine years before.
One was a man and the other a woman. The man was Tu-Sam-Ba; the woman, his wife, the 'Prairie Flower, the present Mrs. Wharton. They seemed to be prisoners, and when I thought of the custom of the Arikaras to roast their prisoners alive, a thrill of horror ran through my veins. The attitude of the 'Prairie Flower' was so noble that she immediately won my heart.
Joshua Pilcher, president of the Missouri Fur Company, joined him; General Ashley and Major Henry met him with other men; four or five hundred Sioux enlisted the Sioux hated the Arikaras. Now Major Henry took eighty men and once again set out, with horses and packs, for the Yellowstone, to finish the season.
Arikaras surprised escaped! "She raised me from the ground, and, carrying me in her arms as if I had been a child, she brought me to a glade in the forest. "'I am hungry, I said, pointing to my mouth. "The woman looked at me for a moment in despair, and shrugged her shoulders to indicate to me that there was no hotel in the neighborhood." At this point of the story Mrs.
Its value seemed to lie in furs and in trade with the natives. After the exploration by Captain Meriwether Lewis and his friend Lieutenant Clark, the fur-hunters were the Americans who opened the trails into the country of the Sioux, the Arikaras, the Blackfeet, the Crows and all.
General Ashley gave him a French-Canadian of St. Louis as a scout companion, and together they crossed the six hundred miles of vast lonely plains infested by the Arikaras and Sioux and Assiniboines, to Major Henry at the mouth of the Yellowstone. Major Henry's party returned with them, to General Ashley at the mouth of the Cheyenne River in South Dakota.
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