Show a STAGE COACH TALES TALI cs by E C TAYLOR R block black hawk rida 1 amans stale loach coach A ans as a white mane internal infernal mai lilue to lilack flin jk the fac indian chief who rho led lie the of the north nest ct oo 00 file he against the white lu in idere iders a century ago black hawk was an imposing warlike w or like indian who vilio truck struck terror into the hearts of the white daml lies living eat nest of 01 ake michigan until he ns as in 1832 the government realia d that permanent peace could aft b so long as black haak blied only by con incan the sac leader that bis his white bro brothers therb were ere destined to rule the country and that further warfare by tin indians indiana would be useless thea 1 lie re representatives of the great mile alte father in conceived tl 0 idea that the best way to teach the arold chief that the white bite man was his master was to show him the wonderful Aonder ful progress the fl kites had find made to open the to the wonders of civilization tin tho elage stage coach a century ago was to clI HAtlon what the air pianola plane Is today it was as the fastest most ca comfortable mode of travel then de ased despite the fact that stage coach riding was little more than a i sei severe ere jolting with jtb progress sometimes of only two miles an hour over almost impassable roads it wai was the last word in methods of travel where the early railroads bad had not ai as yet been built the national road stretching between the atlantic seaboard to st louis boulsby by way ray of cumberland md ild 11 heeling IV I 1 a and he the ohio river valley was the pride of the na ca alon all freight and pa passenger traffic between the hast cast and middle west moved over this hig highway hRay as many as VJ or 40 stage coaches and hundreds of enormous freight wagons moving in each direction every adny so it vi was s decided to take black flail and his lesser chiefs and ret dinue to washington the home of the great white father and make him peaceable pen ceable jy hy showing him the vs of the white man a it civilization and the futility of en in ivar on the whites tie large party which mitch numbered a of indians and their cap tors traveled east on boats on the ohio river rier toll to ft heeling The there rethey they were to stage coaches and set out over the national road for when black hank flank first saw tle use stage coaches be was convinced they were a white man s death trap and he protected protested gutturally putte gutte rally against what he belle was a scheme to kill bemand the indians with him daniel leggett was driving the coach tarrying Larry trig black hawk an indian was on the seat beside him and h hila ade the vehicle were six oth er indiana indians and a it halfbreed half balf breed inter preter besides blai hawk black hawk had ridden in stole silence but with wary eti eq until his coach reached washington ia pa As the coach rattled down mala main 8 street treet in that city a strap on the harned of a wheel horse broke the borse horse plunged and threw the indian riding with the driver to the ground the indian in falling grabbed the driver and pulled him off it lie e coach coah with bin the ile hore promptly ran away with black hawk and his compan ions tons libido inside the swaying careening coach ahr frightened steeds made straight for the barn of the na house where the coaches coa clies otofred on their trips cast east and at the corner of main alain and mahac streets jt the coach unset pinning blaa hav k and his traveling companions inside black hawk was the first to emerge from the wreckage lie cane came out of the overturned turned coach with w ith fire in his eyes and for a time it loii looked lied as though the mission to to establish permia rent peace with the indian indians in the northwest had been smashed be delivered a tirade which on coolers later said must have been a masterly oratorical effort ue he spoke at length nd very feelingly ith all the d 1 gaily of an outraged in dian dlan thief unfortunately in the th excitement no one made a record ol 01 what he lie said sall and what probably wai was an epic of ot indian oratory wat was lost to succeeding generations the 91 gist t of it was according to bis his listeners that be he did not care for this phase of the white man mans civilization and that he had been convinced from the start that the stage coach was a tt white mans death trap he ile said sold just what a 8 white bilte man probably would ha have ve under similar circum circumstances ahe angry sac chief did not cool off until several hours later lat er when he was persuaded to partake of a sumptuous white mans meal at the national house the next morning black hawk ap pared to have for gotten the events of the afternoon before and meekly entered coach to resume the trip to wash ington noon western newspaper union 1 |