The gold digger (1 Viewer)

[Poppo]

 

[Poppo]

Troubles coming soon....{sm4}

 

[Horus]

Mmmm, I wonder if he'll get spotted or they're just ride on by !{sm2}
Looks good Poppo.
Steve

 

[Poppo]

Mmmm, I wonder if he'll get spotted or they're just ride on by !{sm2}
Looks good Poppo.
Steve

Thank you Steve.....It all depends on his quick reflexes in hiding...

 

[Poppo]

Joe, the gold digger hid for two days and then returned to his job. Then came the chief Red Cloud, who said to him, "White man, the Powder River is sacred to the Cheyenne people, why did you come to our land to look for yellow stones?" Joe was very upset by the visit of that Indian chief who was armed and was about to bribe and return to his town ...

 

[Poppo]

" Stupid white man"....

To be continued

 

[Poppo]

In fact, Joe was the blacksmith of his village, an honest man; the work was hard but he liked it. He had a young apprentice, Tobias, who helped him in the small workshop he had made with his savings. On Fridays, at the saloon, in the evening, they drank some whiskey with Fred the shopkeeper and Travis the hostler and played dice. Sometimes, he was able to go out with Molly, the new Irish waitress who, in truth, seemed more interested in the gifts Joe did to her than to his conversation ... For a month, new faces were seen at the saloon, trappers, adventurers, farmers who they said that there was so much gold in the Powder River. Joe, at first listened to those stories with little interest, but then the curiosity and the desire to make some money and buy more modern tools for his workshop took over. So he bought at the emporium some tools and joined with his horse the Powder River. And when Red Cloud came out to warn him, Joe had already packed a little golden dust bag. After the initial fright though, he decided to continue the work for another hour and then leave that place so dangerous...But here he found a big golden nugget !! If he could find others he could have become a respectable person, like Mr. Davenport, owner of 2 emporiums and a saloon, and finally the beautiful Molly would show much interest for him and she would also agree to marry him: the American dream had begun! So blinded by the greed, he forgot the Indian and continued for another day, then another .... But that nugget seemed to be a single daughter!

To be continued

 

[Horus]

Well done Poppo with your fleshing out of the story. Now can't wait for the next episode !{sm4}
Steve

 

[Poppo]

Well done Poppo with your fleshing out of the story. Now can't wait for the next episode !{sm4}
Steve

Thank you Steve, the story is realistic but the nugget was too big! So here a more realistic one {sm4}

 

[Poppo]

On the third day, noon, a Cheyenne warrior leaped out of nowhere running to Joe with a tomahawk in his hand. In those 4 seconds, Joe woke up immediately,the dream had evaporated, and the reality was that Indian with his hard and cold look staring at him ... Then, he saw nothing more, the time of the gold digger on earth was over.

To be continued

 

[Poppo]

Two days later, six miles downstream,the trapper Horace Mallerson was letting his horse drinking to the river; that year in the nearby forests were almost no more opossum and he decided to go to the west where he could hunt the buffalo. He noticed in that occasion the scalped body of poor Joe floating. It was not the first scalped body he saw in his life, that is why he was not very upset. Then he tied the body to his horse and brought it to Fort Laramie.

To be continued

 

[Horus]

The plot thickens ! I reckon the Indian was set up as the fall guy !

Steve

 

[Poppo]

Colonel Robert B. Mitchell, Commander of Fort Laramie, was an ambitious man who wanted to become as quick as possible general. When he learned of the incident,he thought that a reprisal against those savages would have been positively remarked in Washington. So, he sent a punitive expedition with 2 cavalry squads against a nearby peaceful Arapaho village completely obscure of the facts. 64 women, old people and children, and only some warriors were massacred.In fact, at the moment of the attack the warriors had left the village for hunting. The arapaho warriors decided to join Red Cloud who was leading a war in the Powder River region, successfully driving the Teton Dakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho resistance against the invasion along the "Bozeman Trail" (a rail project that would have to link the Wyoming to the gold mines of Montana, to be secured by building a chain of forts in the Indian territory).

The end


ps: the background is generally historically correct.