Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1877 — A Frontier Love Romanee. [ARTICLE]

A Frontier Love Romanee.

A traveler writes to this post that the party with whom lie was traveling through the Big Horn country heard tiring as if a skirmish were going on at a short distance. The next day they heard the same sounds, and carefully started to investigate, and. came upon a band of thirty-five Indians, who retreated after a few shots. The dead bodies of three Indians were found and several ponies. Pushing on they found, resting among the huge rocks that had been his fortress, a man who had fought for two days alone this band of murderous savages. He was young and fine-looking, and his face was as calm as if he had died in his home so many hundred miles away. He was pierced by thirteen balls, and liis clothing was soaked by his life-blood. In his hand he held the picture of a beautiful young girl, the photograph on the reverse side bearing the name of a firm in Chicago. Attached to the picture was a lock of light, silky hair, tied with a ribbon. On his finger was a plain gold ring engraved “To Mamie,” and the word “ Mizpah.” On the photograph was written the lines: For deep In his heart, where the shadows fall, Is the grave of a love that is past recall, And ever a face rose-wreathed and fair AVill rise from the shadows to haunt him there. None knew who the dead man was or whence he came, but the last thought and last look on earth had been for “ Mamie,” whether she was wife, sister or sweetheart; and, burying him there, far away from any who perchance gneve for their unretuming loved one, the picture and curling tress of fair, golden hair were laid upon his breast. N o monument marks the place, but deep into the mountain pine above him were cut the words: “ Mamie’s Friend, Killed May 26, 1877.” —Fort Fetter man Cor. Chicago Times.