[70] The death of Mrs. Lott is said to have been the first white death in what is now Webster County.—Fulton’s Red Men of Iowa, p. 296.
[71] This cabin was in Dallas County, about five miles southwest of Madrid. Here Lott lived until the autumn of 1847.—Lucas’s The Milton Lott Tragedy, p. 5.
[72] To be definite, the cabin of Lott was in Section 16, Township 93, Range 28 West, very near the west line of the section.—Fulton’s Red Men of Iowa, p. 297.
[73] Stories as to the ruse used differ, but all now quite generally accept the elk incident. At the same time the assertion has been made that the incident never happened, but that Lott found at the lodge of Sidominadota silverware stolen from him in 1847, and committed murder forthwith.
[74] Some writers concerning this incident aver that both the girl and boy escaped unharmed while others more romantically mention the boy as left for dead, while the girl escaping unharmed in the darkness later returned to the rescue of her brother. The boy, whose name was Joshpaduta, was later taken charge of by a white family named Carter who gave him a home. The boy would often leave and be gone for many days when he would again return. He is said, just before the Spirit Lake Massacre, to have warned these people of the impending trouble and then to have disappeared. He never returned, and the presumption is that he became a member of that band or was killed by them for telling.—Flickinger’s Pioneer History of Pocahontas County, Iowa, p. 28; Gue ’s History of Iowa, Vol. I, p. 291; Smith’s History of Dickinson County, Iowa, p. 30.
[75] See Fulton’s Red Men of Iowa, pp. 293-299; Flickinger’s Pioneer History of Pocahontas County, Iowa, p. 28; Ingham’s Ink-pa-du-tah’s Revenge in the Midland Monthly, Vol. IV, p. 271; Smith’s History of Dickinson County, Iowa, pp. 29, 31; Gue’s History of Iowa, Vol. I, pp. 289-292.
[76] Fulton’s Red Men of Iowa, pp. 298, 299; Flickinger’s Pioneer History of Pocahontas County, Iowa, p. 28; Lucas’s The Milton Lott Tragedy, p. 7; Hughes’s Causes and Results of the Inkpaduta Massacre in the Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society, Vol. XII, p. 268.
[77] Another report declared that the prosecuting attorney of Hamilton County had nailed the head above the entrance to his home in Homer. Note what is said in Flickinger’s Pioneer History of Pocahontas County, Iowa, p. 28; Ingham’s Ink-pa-du-tah’s Revenge in the Midland Monthly, Vol. IV, p. 271; Hughes’s Causes and Results of the Inkpaduta Massacre in the Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society, Vol. XII, pp. 268, 269.
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[78] Smith’s The Iowa Frontier During the War of the Rebellion in the Proceedings of the Pioneer Lawmakers’ Association of Iowa for 1898, p. 56.