[68] Flickinger's _Pioneer History of Pocahontas County, Iowa_, p. 28.
[69] The Madrid (Iowa) Historical Society, on December 18, 1905, the fifty-ninth anniversary of the boy's death, placed an iron marker upon his grave which had but lately been identified.--Lucas's _The Milton Lott Tragedy_, p. 8.
[70] The death of Mrs. Lott is said to have been the first white death in what is now Webster County.--Fulton's _Red Men of Iowa_, p. 296.
[71] This cabin was in Dallas County, about five miles southwest of Madrid. Here Lott lived until the autumn of 1847.--Lucas's _The Milton Lott Tragedy_, p. 5.
[72] To be definite, the cabin of Lott was in Section 16, Township 93, Range 28 West, very near the west line of the section.--Fulton's _Red Men of Iowa_, p. 297.
[73] Stories as to the ruse used differ, but all now quite generally accept the elk incident. At the same time the assertion has been made that the incident never happened, but that Lott found at the lodge of Sidominadota silverware stolen from him in 1847, and committed murder forthwith.
[74] Some writers concerning this incident aver that both the girl and boy escaped unharmed while others more romantically mention the boy as left for dead, while the girl escaping unharmed in the darkness later returned to the rescue of her brother. The boy, whose name was Joshpaduta, was later taken charge of by a white family named Carter who gave him a home. The boy would often leave and be gone for many days when he would again return. He is said, just before the Spirit Lake Massacre, to have warned these people of the impending trouble and then to have disappeared. He never returned, and the presumption is that he became a member of that band or was killed by them for telling.--Flickinger's _Pioneer History of Pocahontas County, Iowa_, p. 28; Gue 's _History of Iowa_, Vol. I, p. 291; Smith's _History of Dickinson County, Iowa_, p. 30.
[75] See Fulton's _Red Men of Iowa_, pp. 293-299; Flickinger's _Pioneer History of Pocahontas County, Iowa_, p. 28; Ingham's _Ink-pa-du-tah's Revenge_ in the _Midland Monthly_, Vol. IV, p. 271; Smith's _History of Dickinson County_, Iowa, pp. 29, 31; Gue's _History of Iowa_, Vol. I, pp. 289-292.
[76] Fulton's _Red Men of Iowa_, pp. 298, 299; Flickinger's _Pioneer History of Pocahontas County, Iowa_, p. 28; Lucas's _The Milton Lott Tragedy_, p. 7; Hughes's _Causes and Results of the Inkpaduta Massacre_ in the _Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society_, Vol. XII, p. 268.