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Show Squaw Rock ) I v On Hussion river Bear ths II "' -V (Ion of lieta Is a profile ruck i r. as 8quaw llock. Aa If chiseled on lbs beer wall that rises hundreda of feet straight from the river bed, ths strong features sre silhouetted against the ky. Squaw Rock has Its legends, sas lory, ss told by llertha II. Smith In Ilia Hutisol Magailne, la as fullows: A white man once found hla way to an Indian villnge on the banka of Rus sian river, llo was a hunter and bad lost bla way. The Indiana gavs him fund and such shelter ss .they bed. Hunger and exposure had taken his strength and while among ths Indians he became alck. Tha Indian women 1 cared fur him. They made him a bed S ut boughs. Tbey gathered herbs fur 1 hltu and when he burned with fever they brought cold water from the river and poured It over him, bathing him aa beat treey knew from hla suggestions. sug-gestions. The teudirest of his nurses was tha chief's daughter, and when he went away ahe went with him. Far behind sIid left her people, going southward to the home of ber white hunter. Uut one day the hunter diod. Kor a week the Indian woman eat by the cabin disir, as she waa wont to sit and wait fur him to come at night. Then alio dUappeared, leaving no trace behind. In the Indian village un Itussiau river the woman found uo web oine. It was hut ths ahsduw of the chief's daughter that lifted ths flap of the chief's tent and looked Into the chief's face. The way had beea lung, and the llttlo bundle on her back, thut blinked Ita beady eyes and whimpered nuw and then, waa heavy. One look Into the chief's eyes and Into the faces that had gathered about her waa enough. The chiefs daughter daugh-ter knew horself to be sn outcast among hor own people, biie turnod and followed a trail she knew that led to a place where the river ran dark and deep and atlll. When the Indian women went next day to the river fur wator they saw. engraved on the ruck whore the river's course turns sharply, tho features of ths chief's daughter. The Great Spirit had fashioned a marker fur hor grave. |