Ethel John-Bohner & the Indian moccasins
According to a family story, Ethel John was an early homesteader near
the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. This was roughly 1910
and Ethel was only 16 or 17 years old. After Ethel had been there (on the homestead) for a while, she stepped
out of her house one day and saw on the horizon a row of Indians on
horseback. She stepped back into the house. When the Indians rode up
and stopped in front of her place she came out, and they asked her of
they could water their horses at her well. She, of course, said they
could and went back inside. Several weeks later she went out and found
the beaded moccasins by her door. They were just her size. She
figured they had measured her footprints in the dirt while they watered
their horses.