...months old, and which was carried in a fur sack, by one of their young squaws. — Eliza Swan 22 . To undertake to narrate their barbarous treatment...I think of it, much less to speak or write of it. — Rachel Plummer Field ofRed "On the tenth of February, 1675 came the Indians with great numbers...

...beating me with clubs, &c., so that my flesh was never well from bruises and wounds during my captivity. To undertake to narrate their barbarous treatment...mortification that I think of it, much less to speak or write 3 Scalps were used by Comanches in the Victory Dance and were also desirable as fringe decoration for...

...barbarous treatment," Plummer asserts, "would only add to my present distress, for it is with feelings of deepest mortification that I think of it, much less to speak or write of it" (33738). Plummer certainly had cause to feel herself ill-treated: four months pregnant when taken captive,...

...barbarous treatment," she wrote, "and I assure my sanguine reader that it is with feelings of deep regret that I think of it, much less to speak or write of it."29 Despite the massacre at Fort Parker, the Texas government continued to worry more about Mexico...