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Rh WI-NE-MA.

(The Woman of the Brave Heart.)

A Modoc woman, and a full cousin to Captain Jack. Her fidelity and her heroism in the Lava Beds, in 1873, won for her a place in history which can never be disputed. After warning the Commission of the impending danger, unavailingly, she went to the ill-fated Council as interpreter; and when the attack was made, she sprang to her feet, and by almost superhuman efforts saved my life

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Chairman of the late Peace Commission to the Modoc Indians.

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