Once when making a trip on a Mississippi steamboat, she fell violently in love with the captain of the boat, deserted her husband and went to live with the captain without the formality of a marriage ceremony. A few years of the life caused her beauty to wane and the captain tiring of her, discarded her for some woman who appealed more to his taste, and she drifted with the tide for a few years then remarried. She lived with her last husband for some years, then followed the crowd to old Chadron. She had a claim on

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White river just south of the Junction. She was possessed of a violent temper, and more than once asserted what she believed her rights with a Winchester rifle, and was charged with the murder of a man who trespassed upon her claim. Red Jacket came over with the old town. She was a confirmed dope fiend, and after great suffering she died in poverty about 1888. Once when confined in the public bastile she managed to set the jail on fire, but John Henry, who was also an inmate, gave an alarm and they were rescued. Red Jacket was given the name because she constantly wore a red sweater when running the Mississippi river. There are people living in Chadron at .this date who are said to have gazed into the barrel of her six shooter. Her claim was swallowed up

new town was named after the old. Whether or not the new town was launched into existence by the bursting of a bottle of champagne, we are unable to enlighten the reader. But knowing the particular thirst that gnawed at the throats of many westerners of that date, we deem it safe to say that nothing less than straight whiskey was indulged in on that occasion.