They Had To Be. Books could be filled with anecdotes of men, wome n and children who survived under seemingly impossibl e conditions -- survived attacks by enemies, by wild animals , by terrible storms, and hunger, thirst and cold. One o f these was Mrs. Paige. In this space I do not have the room to tell all tha t happened to her and her family. Her father and many o f her relatives were killed by Indians. Those the Indian s missed at one time, they caught up with later. Attacked on the trail, Mrs. Paige was struck repeatedl y on the head, stabbed and then thrown over a cliff. Sh e hung briefly in a tree, and then fel l the rest of the way. The Indians approached the rim and threw a number o f boulder at her, some of which sneered direct hits. Believing her dead, the Indians rode away. Sometime later , when she returned to consciousness, the young woma n began to crawl. Despite the loss of blood and the wound s she had suffered, she crawled several miles, managin g occasionally to stagger a few steps.
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