Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1881 — An Indian Bride’s Devotions. [ARTICLE]

An Indian Bride’s Devotions.

There are but few instances of devotion that prove the existence of love in a higher degree than that given by Kit Carson’s Indian wife to her brave and manly lover. While mining in the west ho married an Indian girl, with whom he lived very happily. When he was taken ill a long way from home word was sent to his wife, who mounted a fleet mustang ponv and traveled hundreds of miles to reach him. Night and day she continued her journey, resting only for a few hours on the open prairie, flying on her wonderful little steed as soon as she could gather up her forces anew. She forded rivers, she scaled rocky passes, she waded through morasses, and finally arrived, just alive, to find her husband better. But the exposure and exertion killed her; she was seized with pneumonia and died within a brief space in her husband’s arms. The shock killed Kit Carson, the rugged miner—he broke a blood vessel, and both are buried in one grave.