Arkansas Intelligencer

Brave Girl.—While on the Colorado. I was told by "mine host" of an incident illustrative of the heroism of Texan females, which occurred near this place not many years ago. A party of one hundred Indians had killed two men working in a field, and put a third to flight. In these circumstances, a young woman, scarcely sixteen years of age, undertook to protect her family.— Putting on the captain's uniform, with a cocked hat, she courageously walked out of the house and beckoned the Indians to come on, at the same time making signs to those within, the house, (only some women and children, and an old man.) to repress their ardor, and keep still! The Indians, supposing that the brave captain's company were within, eager to charge, thought it best to draw from so dangerous a post, and they accordingly fled! Certainly the Texan Congress should have granted her a captain's commission and pay for life. Rev. Daniel Baker.