Excerpt from Historical Sketch of the Flathead Indian Nation From the Year 1813-1890: Embracing the History of the Establishment of St. Mary's Indian Mission in the Bitter Root Valley, Mont There was celebrated the first Christmas ever celebrated by white men in Montana territory. Mr. 001 says: We spent a com paratively happy Christmas, and by the side ofablazinstlreinawarm room. orgotthe su 'erings we endured in ourdreary progress through the woods. There was, however. Inthe midstofourfestivities agreatdraw back, fmmthe pleasure we should other wise have enjoyed. I allude to the am fortunate Blackfeet who had been captured by the Flatheads. Having been informed that they were about putting one of their prisoners to death, I went to their camp to witness the spectacle. The man was tied to a tree, utter which they hosted an old barrel of a gun until itbecame redhot. With which they burned him on the legs, thighs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."