Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1859 — A Place Where Bloomer Women sire in Demand. [ARTICLE]

A Place Where Bloomer Women sire in Demand.

Mrs. Dr Lydia S.iycr Hasbrouck’s Sibyl has a correspondent in the person of Mrs. j. A. Archibald, a bloomer woman who is travelling across the prairies with her husband and other adventurers for Pike’s Peak. In her last letter she s lys she was in great demand among the Indians—a class of’ people noted formally characteristics buttheir good taste: “We passed, on the 14t.1i qf ’urn?, a large pumbeffof Cheyenne and Arr.ipah >,.* Indians. Fi.ty men armed with Sharp’s rifles and revolvers were afraid to allow the Indians to know that the company contained any women, the consequence of which the carriers of the Santa Fe mail told them a few days previous. I was, therefurc, confined to the wagon, while’wc passed manv places of interest which 1 wished much to visit. Notwithstanding 4 his care not to be observed, my presence became known. At' one time by opening the front of the wagon tor venti latio >, at. dn--th r by l<‘.i;>ing from it to sec something curb us which two or tl.in’C Indians ha.l brought, not. knowing, as afterwards proved trii--, that we were very near a viiI.ige, 1 sooii discovered my mistake, and though I did n >t mys.-rt feel there wis anr ciu-e lor alarm. I was sorry I h al been seen, on account ol the feeling existing in the train. It was of no use to hide n ery Indian within a mile knew of my whereabouts. Ttibug i there was not a shadow of d inger in sub!) a c imp ny as ours, as many ol us knew alt. the tiin -, and as miiiy experienced men have since informed us, it is very tra s that the! red m -n have an un i-'counta-bte lancy for white women. Mv husband received st-vei’al very fl ttti'rii-.g offers lor me. One Indian Wanted to trade two squaws, who could probably neri'orm four times the physical labor that Ic: uld. Olliers, not fpjte so timid, approaching the wagons, made signs for m ■ to jump behind them on their ponies, but 1 declined the honor in the most respectful language I knew of their dialect, a decided shake of the head.” ’