Recto:

l.l. in image: Modoc. 4.

Mount Verso:

u.c. [typed on paper label]: 1011. WI-NE-MA, or Tobey Riddle. \ The modern Pocahontas, who, at the risk of her own \ life, saved the life of Col. A.B. Meacham, chairman of \ the Modoc peace commission, at the Modoc massacre. \ The Oregon Stateman truly says: "A truer heroine \ was never born in the American forest than the poor \ Indian woman, Tobey Riddle, whose exertions to save \ one who had befriended herself and people were no \ less daring and resolute than the devotion of Poca- \ hontas. We have nowhere read of a woman, white, \ black, or red, performing an act of sublimer heroism \ than Tobey Riddle, when, under suspiciouns of treach- \ ery, she returned to her people in the rocks, with an \ almost absolute certainty of being flayed alive. The \ description of that event is one of the finest passages \ in Mr. Meacham's speech, and is a fitting tribute to the \ courage and fidelity of his dusky, lion-hearted friend. \ The gratitude, fidelity, and devotion of that poor squaw \ ought to forever put to silence and shame those heart- \ less savages who, in the midst of a Christian civiliza- \ tion, were clamoring for the extinction of a people whom \ God had planted where they were found." Tobey is \ 28 years of age, and the wife o fFrank Riddle. She \ is honored by all who know her.

c. in graphite: 422. \ neg. no. 3051

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas

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