River People

When they passed towering trees—thankfully few and far between—and her nerves made her grab the shotgun and her black  cloth, Rev. Jackdaw lied to her. Told her again how the Injun was completely wiped out. As though he didn’t know that after the Sioux uprising Mr. Lincoln let over two hundred murdering savages go free. Squaws and papooses weren’t even arrested. Lincoln not only spared the noose, he sent the whole murdering bunch to Nebraska. On top of that, the Injun chief, Big Foot, and his band—another mob of murderers—had killed over thirty United States Calvary men right on the Nebraska border. The papooses who escaped that December morning were grown now. Angry too.