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family to Yreka." I have found him a reliable man and a true friend, even in the darkest hour. He won the confidence and respect of those whom he had met on our tour; always an affable, plain Western man, full of interesting reminiscences of frontier life, he had always been well received and kindly treated by the friends of the Indian elsewhere. He is not

Frank Riddle, the Author's father. Taken in Washington, D. C.

ashamed to manifest his pride in his Indian wife and half- breed boy.

"Charka" (the handsome boy), alias Jeff. C. Davis Riddle. son of Frank and Wi-ne-ma, was born in 1863, at Yieka, California. He is a remarkable boy, early evincing a fair amal- gamation of Kentucky frankness and Modoc courage* while lie has been much with white boys of his age in Yreka, he has

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