Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1905 — SILVER DOLLAR LEGEND. [ARTICLE]

SILVER DOLLAR LEGEND.

]Why the Eagts Clasps These. Arrow* In Its I Perhaps there fire MW whcl know why there firrojr beid» t* a silYtc dollar, for that that thgrfii are only tino9, la* aq, Indian logecd ju to hows the* 'came there, ti.fcioaely akoclatwith Uie flag ffom the Quadkw a*--tlon. now attracting so much [attention In the Territory building it th* World’s Fair. This flag is the property of 'osepfr aioCoose, ft bfis been handec ' dow* from his graftt-great-grttafifith Ir. Bwperneau McCoose. The flag v jus th* one carried by Tecumseh In h e long campaign and was taken fr< in hia dead body after tbe battle >f th* Thames. In this campaign thei t were allied with General Harrison < te Peorlas, Kaskaskians and Pian jashaa, three nations that once beip< fi rata Canada, New York and a part o ' Pennsylvania, the f&gments of whlih are now gathered in the Quapaw nation and all told number fewer, tin n 200. The night before the great b title a council was called. A iff an volunteered from each of these trlb< a who took a solemn oath to kill Te< umseh the next day. The battle ft Itowed and Tecumseh was killed. Hls followers attempted to take his body down the river in a boat that: night, but the three watchful enemies were too alert and surprised the [party. They failed to secure the body .of Tecumseh, but succeeded in getting the flag which was wrapped aroupd his body. It was cut with many bullet and a: row holes. This flag fell to Superneau McCooset and has been handed down in his family ever since. The flag is of flannel cloth, made after the design of the British flag of that day. (t U handsewed and was made by the squaws of Tecumseh’s tepee. According to the Indian legend, it was In honor of the three Indians who volunteered to kill Tecumseh on that day. or .die fat the attempt, that the three arrows appeared on the Issues of the silver coins after that date—Kansas City