Come,
you children of the pioneers,
And join me in their praise;
et us
shout three rousing cheers,
To awake the memory of their frays.
Our fathers, they came to the land
Of redskins and buffalo,
And
took a firm, steadfast stand,
To rid the country of its foe.
Some
were settlers, others were scouts,
All aiming to build up the frontier
And run the redskins out,
Who were scalping all, far and near.
They suffered privations and hardships,
These stronghearted men of the
wild,
As they made their many trips
Over the prairie, but not once
defiled.
Though unseen dangers hovered near,
On open plains or in
mountains high,
They bravely pushed forward with a cheer,
Determined to conquer the West or die.
When the Indian massacres were
spreading,
And the frontier was flooded with untold fears,
And all
the settlers were dreading
The oncoming bloodstained years,
Governor Evans realized the vast need
Of defense and protection on the
border;
So Colonel Chivington bravely took the lead,
And marched
his band out in perfect order.
Just a hand full of volunteers
Marched out to defeat or victory.
One aim had these brave pioneers,
'Twas to save this western country.
They did not march to fife and
drum,
In grand military array,
With bayonets flashing in the sun,
Or waving colors bright and gay,
But valiantly kept step to the
rhyme
Of aching hearts and thoughts of those
That fell victims to
the bloody crime
Of the savages the settlers' worst foe.
They
marched 'neath the standard of right,
These volunteers brave and true,
And fought with all their might
To win a home, my friends, for
you.
They chased those bloodthirsty red devils
That had covered
the West with blood and tears ;
They ran them on the hills and levels,
Like the redskins had once done the pioneers.
Only a few of them
now remain
To see the outcome of their deeds;
The growth of their
once barren plain
That now supplies all our needs.
We owe to
Chivington and his band
A debt we can never repay,
For taking
their brave, firm stand,
Thus starting our West of today.
The West
of grandeur and wealth,
With its schools and enterprises,
The West
of good cheer and health,
And many other glad surprises.
Reverence
to the memory of those years
Of struggles and sorrows on the frontier
Gratitude in our hearts for the Volunteers
And our forefathers, the
Pioneers.
Some of the Pioneers of Colorado
Source: True History of some of the Pioneers of Colorado, by Miss
Luella Shaw, Press of Carson Harper Co, Denver, Colorado, 1909 |
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