 | Merrill J. Mattes - History - 1987 - 646 pages
...its warm, yellow waters soon quenched the thirst of all. [What about the famous Ash Hollow spring?] Near the mouth of Ash Hollow we passed a mail station,...gazed quietly at us through their black, snaky eyes. . . . Near this spot a battle was fought a year before between the Cheyennes and the Americans under... | |
 | Robert Lee Munkres - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 340 pages
...Kenderdine (1858), who described a village of Cheyennes camped near the mouth of Ash Hollow this way: "The little naked children crowded around us as we...dames who guard the portals of the infernal regions." 134 The attitude held by perhaps a majority of those passing through Ash Hollow was one of patronizing... | |
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Near the mouth of Ash Hollow we passed a mail station, near which was encamped a village of Cheyennes. The little naked children crowded around us as we passed by the lodges, whilst the old squaws, squatted around their domiciles, gazed quietly at us... 