50 SQUAW RIDERS 



particularly if she happens to be a new purchase and a 

 favorite of the chief. 



A squaw is usually about as good a horseman as her 

 buck, and rides his saddle or bareback with as much ease 

 as a city woman rocks in her chair. She is often as plucky 

 as he is. Indeed, it is not uncommon to find women in the 

 fighting ranks, and doing a man's full duty ; and if the 

 squaw does not often join her lord in the killing and capt- 

 ure of the enemy, she can out-do him at all times in cru- 

 elty to prisoners. Perhaps no human being is so fiendish 

 in the pastime of torturing prisoners as an Indian squaw. 

 She out-herods Herod in barbarity. 



