[Ads-l] Off the Reservation (1892)

[Wilson Gray]

On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 9:57 PM, Bill Mullins <amcombill at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Gen. Denver was informed by a Mr. Mathews, of Crescent City, that
> every Indian between Crescent City and Yreka had gone to the
> reservation. Mr. Whipple had told the people to shoot all the Indians
> found off the reservation, and notified the Indians of what he had
> done. This had the desired effect.
>

"The only good Indian is a dead Indian," as they used to say.


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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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