Show lITY the uto of maken zie Flut ious for her skill neto il ork star I 1 while at Clie wele recently I 1 met nancy a noted half breed who is known throughout the far northwest from ILon tana to puget sound she elivea in a log cabin in one of those fertile valleys which abound in the mountainous districts of washington territory on chil charl charla a mouse nancy as she is familiarly known is a large framed tell woman about sixty years of age who takes more after ller indian mother than her scotch father who as an enlisted man in the service of the bludson bay company lefils home in the orkney lalands about five years ago and sough t wealth and adventure i n theun trodden and unknown regions of tile northwest abero his employ era the bludson ba company were seeking to tallish tr a ding still gain a foothold in tb c name of the british crown in a ter jacob trying to gain of use feeder to lis newly established fort altorio As torio at the mouth of the columbia iziver ile was one of those ild and daring men the record of whose prowess are only pre served in the oft told legend 3 ot the im A that are narrated and to by half clothed around their winter campfires camp fires ile met riad an indian aman still lost all desire to the wild boine and with whom circumstances had thrown him it is more than eten hinted that lie joined the sav ages in sume of their first wars with the whites and that more than once his hand was red with the blood of his fellow countrymen whose lonely cabin he bad with his savages fired with the midnight torch be this as it may nancy grew to womanhood under his tutelage tut elege and around him in big from the but falo grounds of I 1 montana to the salmon creeks that their writers into the great colum bill and to puget sound where the wandering tribes of eava ed would congregate at bertain seasons in her younger days she must doubt lest have been it model for the sculptor in physical for though aged and wrinkled she is nearly six feet in bight and craight as the typical indian with troug and deeply penciled features her sex she be came a noted marksman and haut er which characteristics 3 distinguish her to this day she was as is the custom among the indian s of her tribes to a scotchman who like her father belonged to the bludson bay com an after buffet ilig with the pauyo tid 0 emigration which had begun t blow across the rocky mountains and up from california they ettlel in the valley where she now lives and sav ebythe wandering band 4 of indians who alver pass her cabin by she is a widow her husband patrick me kenzie having died of lion a few years since and is the jut representative of her race for her numerous progeny have either succumbed to consumption that scourge of mixed races or have noose of the vigilantes digil antes for riding off the horse or driving away the cattle of th rancher nancy still clings to the habit 0 her youth and may be seen every vey riding astride on her tough cayuso pony driving her inlall band 1 es and cattle to the hangea in the mountains or gallop ing away down the wo rn indian trail followed by two powerful knit a till deep voiced lie as she goes out to enjoy a days port hunting the deer along tile or the site always old style ireney rifle on abr should er and maintains her repute diun tiun as s marksman and a hunter she always has her meat houses well stored with venison wl ile anglers antlers ant lers bear askitis and other hies SUP the place of in her I 1 was told a little alory concern ing her by a physicist it I 1 alo lives near by ile said that a few lays before he vins out in the swaine bunting plessant when lie heard the sharp crack of a rifle near at hand thinking that it was of his neighbors who bad seared up a deer in the he hastened to the spot lot bound nan ey mc keible with a smoking in hr h r band jeering toward t e booti of sit upturned fir tree on askin 4 what she bad shot olle in french for she aly speaks indian and french that she had eliot a bear standing against the root of the tree and was not certain rho doctor admitted that his kiteas amoto together a fit alo when lie looked in the direction indicated and saw a great shaggy object roll jug about on the ground nancy said she was out of ammunition and asked birn to give bruin it parting shot the doctor was R trank man still lie again admitted that be shot and th at lied aaion it was but that on exama found that he hall not touched a lair this untold bastory of nancys life would fill an interesting volume I 1 to those of with adventures equa of lait carson and daniel boone |