Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London

"I was just thinkin' of a yarn my father used to tell about," he
explained. "It was about old Susan Kleghorn, one of the Oregon
pioneer women. Wall-Eyed Susan, they used to call her; but she
could shoot to beat the band. Once, on the Plains, the wagon
train she was in, was attacked by Indians. They got all the
wagons in a circle, an' all hands an' the oxen inside, an' drove
the Indians off, killin' a lot of 'em. They was too strong that
way, so what'd the Indians do, to draw 'em out into the open, but
take two white girls, captured from some other train, an' begin
to torture 'em. They done it just out of gunshot, but so
everybody could see. The idea was that the white men couldn't
stand it, an' would rush out, an' then the Indians'd have 'em
where they wanted 'em.