Beadle's Frontier Series #25: Indian Jim—A Tale of the Minnesota Massacre — page 7: what you’re looking at

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- INDIAN JIM. CHAPTER I. ON THE RIVER. Om a burning day in August, 1862, a little steamer was plowing its way up the muddy waters of the Minnesota. Crowded together upon it were men, women, and children, boxes, barrels, bundles, and the thousand and one inseparab.e - gfecompaniments of the emigrant and traveler. The boat's deck was densely crowded with its human freight, each person eager for a view of the country through which they were passing. — There was the cold, calculating speculator, whose eyes Eindled with admiration, as they rested upon the rich sweep of prairie, or the exuberant wood-land. There were the pale- faced invalid; the animated, excitable Frenchman; the over- bearing, but honest-minded Englishman; the thoughtful, phiegmatic German; the yellow haired, resolute Scotchman, and even the ebon-skinned African, then populariy termed the “contraband.” In short, the steamer was. the world in minia- _ ture, a focus of its passions, its prejudices, its hates and loves. Near the stern of the boat stood two individuals, upon whom the glowing panorama seemed to make but a slight impression. The first was a young man, rather tall in stature, and with some claims to good looks. A small Panama hat gui jauntily upen his head, while the linen “ duster,” slightly thrown back by the lefi hand resting in the upper part of the _ tewsers pocket, disclosed a heavy gold chain, from which dangled several seals and ornaments. Underneath the right arn rested a portfolio, within which were a score or more of sketches of prairie and mountain scenery, clever spevimens of art. The owner was Adolphus Haileck, an artist, journeying _ ap the Minnesota River, partly for the purpose of filling his _ portfolio with more of these drawings and sketches. Bier: -comicbooks __ @tadt’s glorious pictures of Rocky Mountain life and'scemery. —