PIONEER HUNTERS OF THE KANKAK.EE 

 got too deep to wade then they could get Into 

 the boat and swim the horses alongside the 

 boat. They decided to go together and took 

 passage per "skiff and horseback riding their 

 horses when it wasn't too deep. In less than 

 an hour they were landed safely at Sand Ridge 

 Landing in Jasper County. This is one inci- 

 dent mentioned which is only one ot the many 

 daring feats of this kind in which lArs. Eaton 

 showed her skill as a boat's woman. Late in 

 the afternoon of the next day the sheriff of La- 

 porte County, Indiana, arrived in the ferry look- 

 ing for tv/o stolen horses taken from a farmer 

 near Doorville and the description of the men 

 and horses tallied v/ith those that Ars. Eaton 

 ferried across the river. There is no doubt but 

 that they were the men v/anted at Laporte. 

 The chances for getting away and hiding stolen 

 horses in the sand ridges on the south side of 

 the river v/as much better than on the north 

 side as the country was not so well settled. 

 Aany a stolen horse has been hidden away on 



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