Our western border

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Chapter I

Iktroduction — Destruction of the Erie Tribe of Indians — Contrast Drawa between the French Canadian and the English Trader — Washington's First Visit to the Great West — Hq is hurled into the Allegheny and shot at by a Savage — Washington's First Campaign — The Surrender of Fort Necessity — Remarkable Adventures of Major Eobert Stobo — His Escape from Quebec and Daring Exploits — He Captures two Ships with all on Board — Braddock's Expedition against Fort Duquesne — The Character of Braddock and his Army — The Disastrous Battle of Braddocks Fields — Sir Peter Halket's Death — Braddock'3 Retreat and Death — Capture of Fort Duquesne — Colonel Grant's Defeat — Highland Eage — Strange Discovery by the young Sir Peter Halket of the Skeletons of Father and Brother — The Touching Story of Fanny Braddock — Remarkable Adventures of Colonel James Smith, Five Years a Captive among the Indians — Ducked in the River by three Squaws — Adopted into an Indian Tribe — Cunning of the Catawbas — Smith Lost in the Woods — Odd Ways of Hunting Bears, Foxes, Raccoons, &c. — Attempt to Run Down Horses — Scolded for Helping the Squaws — Habits of the Beaver — Smith Snowed Up and Lost — Singular Indian Customs — An Indian Drinking Frolic — Indian Deer Drive and Ring Hunt — Novel Fishing — Smith's Marriage — A Wilderness Hermit — He takes a British Fort — Captain Jack, the " Wild Hunter of the Juniata'' 1-111

Chapter II

The Conspiracy of Pontiac — First Mutterings of the Awful Storm — Pontiac's Subtlety — Machillimackinac Captured through a Game of Ball — The Trader Henry's Narrow Escapes from Death — Obstinate Defence of Presq' Isle Fort — Pontiac's Siege of Detroit — An Ojibwa Maid Reveals the Plot — Officers Captured — Anecdotes of Pontiac — A Thrilling Boat Scene — A Frightful Massacre — Capture of Forts — Fire Rafts — Old Major Campbell Killed — A Fierce Struggle at Bloody Run — A Dreadful Repulse — The Siege Abandoned — Death of the Mighty Pontiac — Guyasutha's Attack on Fort Pitt and Repulse — Ruse with a Stuffed Paddy — .Bouquet Comes to the Rescue — His Desperate Battle of Bushy Run — He Penetrates into the Heart of the Indian Country — Touching Scenes on the Delivery of the Captives — The Desperate Battle of Point Pleasant — General Andrew Lewis — The Battle Rages — The Savages Retreat — Atrocious Murder of Cornstalk and his Son — The Murder of the Great Chief, Bald Eagle — Sketch of Logan, the Fam^/us Mingo Chief- Massacre of the Conestoga Indians 112-182 to Table of Contents.

Chapter III

Lcfe on the Border — Manners and Customs of Western Pioneers- -The Titles to Lands and Hardships of Settlers — Hunting and Hunters of the Border —How Marriages were Conducted — Setting up Housekeeping — Strange Frolics —Pioneer Women and Their Duties — Tattling, Shirking and Thieving, and how Punished — Household Furniture and Customs — Indian Tracking and Fighting — Sports and Pastimes on the Border — Captivity of John McCullough and his Adventures among Savages — How he was Made Happy — An Indian Boy Shot and Killed and McCullough Suspected — Captive nearly Drowned — ■ A Squaw Whipped for Abusing Him — Novel Punishment — McCullough Escapes from his Own Father — Captivity and Escape of the Bard Family — Horrible Death of Daniel McManimy by Torture — Wanderings in Search of a Lost Wife — Origin of the Indian Term "Long-Knives" — John Harris, Founder of Harrisburg, Pa. — Dr. Benjamin Franklin as a Commander — Conrade Weiser and the Onondaga Chief — Border Forts, Stations and Block- Houses — A 'Singular Will Case on the Border — Sir William Johnson, Baronet — u A Fine old Irish Gentleman, all of the Olden Time " — Peculiar Education of Sir William's two Daughters — He Marries the Famous Molly Brant — A Wild Indian Girl— A late Visit to Johnson Hall and Castle 183-252

Chapter IV

Daniel Boone, Pioneer of Kentucky — Kentucky as it was in the Older^ Time — Boone Captured for the First Time and Escapes — Alone in the Wilderness — He Moves his Family West and Loses a Son — Capture of his Daughter and the Calloway Girls — His Fight with two Savages and Capture — Siege of Boonesborough — Indian Stratagems Foiled — Defeat of Captain Estill — A Well- Fought Action — Simon Girty's Desperate Attack on Bryant's Station — Heroism of the Kentucky Women — Kunning a Bloody Gauntlet — Girty Chaffed by Keynolds — Disastrous Battle of the Blue Licks — Boone's Son Killed — Thrilling Incidents — Keynolds' Capture — Hugh McGary's Fierce Character and Defence— Boone's Last Days— Touching Scenes—Marks out his own Grave— Two New Anecdotes of Boone — Kentucky Sports — Boone Barking Squirrels — Driving the Nail and Snuffing the Candle by Rifle — General Simon Kenton alias Butler — Thinks he is a Murderer — Herds of Elk and Buffalo — Hendricks Burnt — Kenton's Fight — Kenton Passes Through a Series of Extraordinary Adventures — He Tries a Mazeppa Kide — Escape and Recapture — Girty Intercedes and Saves his Friend— A Savage Axe Blow— Kenton meets Logan- Butler Changes his Name to Kenton— His Last Sorrowful Years— The Wetzel Family, Father and Five Sons — Lewis the Right Arm of the Wheeling Border —Martin Wetzel Captured and Kills three Savages — John Wetzel on a Horse- Stealing Expedition and Captures an Obstinate Savage — Jacob Wetzel and Simon Kenton Attack a Camp — Lewis Wetzel and his Dare-Devil Adventures — He Slays Three Savages in a Running Fight — Shoots a Red Gobbler and Attacks a Camp — Handcuffed by Harmar and Escapes — The border Rises to his Rescue — Thrilling Adventure 253-343

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Chapter V

The Zane Family who Settled Wheeling— Shooting Adventures- Major Samuel McColloch and his Famous Leap — Benjamin Logan and nil Heroic Deeds — Perilous Journey after Powder — Bowman's Singular Behavior —Murder of Moluntha by the Fierce Hugh McGary— Another Account — A Spirited Lad and how he Became Famous — His Komantic Death — Adventures of Captain Johnny — A Desperate Indian Duel — Captain William Hardin, Pioneer of Kentucky — Captain Bland Ballard and his Adventures — Exciting Adventure of " Big Joe Logston " — Jack Wells' Dream and What Came of It— Major Kobert Benham and his Strange Adventure — McConnel's Capture and Signal Revenge — Adventure of the Three Brothers McAfee — Bryant's and Hogan's Parties Assaulted by Indians — A Schoolmaster Attacked by a Wild Cat — David Morgan's Famous Combat with two Savages — Events from Dunmore's War to the Moravian Massacre — The Delaware Chiefs, Captains Pipe and White Eyes — The Tories, Girty, Elliott and McKee, Desert from Fort Pitt— Death of White Eyes— A Horrid Massacre 344-396

Chapter VI

God's Mighty Work in the Wilderness — King Pomoacon Destroys the Moravian Towns and Carries the Inhabitants Captive — Frightful Massacre ot Moravians at Gnadenhutten — The Converts told to Prepare for Death — Touching Scenes — Driven into two Slaughter Houses and Inhumanly Butchered — One Little Boy Saved — Slaughter Renewed at Smoky Island — Full Sketch of Simon Girty, the "White Savage" — He Marries the Beautiful Kate Malott — Captain Samuel Brady, the Daring Partisan Leader — His First Bold Scout to the Upper Sandusky — A Conflict at " Brady's Bend " — His Adventure with Phouts — Saves Himself by a Shrewd Device — A Wholesale Kill — Curing a " Sick Gun " — A Line Shot and Three Savages " Bagged " — The Lone Hunter's Revenge — A Dread Holocaust — Tracked by a Dog — An Indian Captured — "Brady's Leap" over the Cuyahoga River — His Trial, Marriage and Death — Andy Poe's Famous Fight with Big Foot — Only Reliable Account yet Published — The Two make a Desperate Effort to Drown Each Other — Poe's Fight with a Young Bull — A Revenge Thwarted — Colonel Crawford's Expedition against Sandusky— A Fight with General Daniel Morgan — Disastrous Defeat and Retreat, and Horrible Death by Torture — Dr. Knight's Escape — Slover's Capture and Mad Ride for Life — The Mysterious Major John Rose turns oui to be a Russian Nobleman ... „ 397-476

Chapter VII

General George Rogers Clark — His Heroic Deeds— Character of Border Warfare— Secret Advance on Kaskaskia — Singular Scenes — Big Gate Won Over — Chiefs Thrown into Irons — Extraordinary Scenes at a Council — Vincennes Retaken— In Great Peril— Strangest and Most Daring March on Record— Wading Through Deep Waters— Clark's Stratagems — Kentucky n Table of Contents.

Sharp Shooting — Major Hay Trembles— Curious Incident — Fort Surrenders- Clark's Disappointments and Death — "The War Belt, a Legend of North Bend " — James Harrod, Pioneer Hunter and Indian Slayer — He Nurses a Wounded Indian — Combat and Escape of Peter Kennedy — Adventure oi Boone, related by himself 477-515

Chapter VIII

The Two Sieges of Fort Henry — Mason's and Ogle's Commands Cut to Pieces — Deplorable Ambuscade of Foreman's Party — Second Siege of Wheeling in 1782— A Wooden Monster— Betty Zane's " Gunpowder Exploit "—The Northwestern Campaign — Expedition of General Harmar — Singular Adventure of Johonnet — Desperate Combat — Disastrous Defeat of General St. Clair— Genera! Butler Killed — Prodigious Slaughter and Disgraceful Rout — The Ranger's Race for Life — Colonel Darke's Escape — Mad Anthony Wayne tries it and Wins— Battle of " Fallen Timbers "—Enemy Routed— Captain Wells and Robert McClellan, the Rangers, and their Thrilling Exploits — Singular Recovery of a Brother — Five Rangers Attack a Camp — McClellan Rescued by a Girl — More of McClellan 's Adventures — Alone in a Desert and Reduced to Starvation 516-570

Chapter IX

A Series op Thrilling Events — Adventures of May, Johnston, Flinn and Skyles — A Successful Decoy and Boat Capture — Exciting Chase and Repulse — Johnston Bothered by a Cow — The Game of u Nosey " — Two Children saved by Messhawa — Flinn Tortured — Wonderful Escape of Skyles — Miss Fleming's Sad Plight — Rescued by The Crane — Adventures of Ward, Calvin and Kenton — Ward Finds a Lost Brother — Desperate Attack on Hubbell's Boat — An Obstinate Resistance— A Brave Boy — Savage Boat Attack and Terrible Combat — An Obstinate Defence and Barren Victory — A Fierce Conflict by three Kentuckians — Thomas Marshall and James Girty — Captain Ward and the Fat Dutchman — Exciting Narrative of Van Campen 571-624

Chapter X

The Frightful Massacre of Wyoming — Catharine Montour alias Queen Esther — Fierce Attack of Hammond and the Bennetts — Frances Slocum, the Lost Sister — Revenge of Colonel John Moredock — Thrilling Adventure of Audubon, the Naturalist — Ogilvie's Contrary Adventure— Obstinate Combat of Higgins, the Ranger — Colter's Famous Race for Life — An Indian's Sagacity at Trailing — Bell's Conflict with three Savages — Western Emigration — Odd Scenes — Pack-Horses — Boating Life on the Western Waters— Mike Fink, the " Last of the Keelboatmen. " — Game and " Deer Drives " of the Olden Time —Captain Minter's Famous Bear Fight — How Muldrow Found his Next Neighbor — A Wild White Man and his Story — How Major Smith Recovered his Sweetheart — Jesse Hughes, the Mountain Hunter — Sad Death ol Captain

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Van Buskirk — Massacre of the Purdy Family — Massacre of the Tush Family — Massacre of Captain Thomas and Family — Attack upon Kirkwood's Cabin — A " Perfect Devil " Kills Seven Indians — Levi Morgan's Stratagem for Lil« — Kiddled with Bullets and yet Escapes — A Handsome Squaw makes Love to Biggs — Cacasotte throws Fourteen Bobbers Overboard 625-683

Chapter XI

Pioneer Women— Their Trials and Heroism — Touching Narrative of Massy Harbison— Desperate Attack on Widow Scraggs' Cabins — Mrs. Merrill, the Terrible " Long-Knife " Squaw — Family of Mrs. Daviess Captured — A Rescue — Murder of the Two Misses Crow — Desperate Attack on the Cunningbarn's — Captivity and Wanderings of Mrs. Frances Scott — Bebecca Boone, and how Daniel Won Her — " Mad Ann Bailey," of West Virginia— The Beautiful and Dashing Louisa St. Clair — Mrs. Mason Kills One and Frightens a Score — Escape of Hannah Dennis — Mrs. Clendenin — Mrs. Cunningham Attacks Two Indians — Heroic Defence by the Two Widows Cook — "That's John's Gun "—A Widow Won at Last — Euth Sevier marries a Shawnee Chief —The " Isaac and Rebecca " of West Virginia 684-719

Chapter XII

Pluck and Spirit op the Border Boys — Remarkable Exploit of the Johnson Boys — A Lad Kills a Red-Crested Gobbler — Capture of Two Boys and the Price Paid— Adventures of Five Kentucky Boys — Jonathan Alder Captured — His Strange Return — The Captivity of Two Little Brothers — Francis Downing Saved by a Bear — Narrative of John Brickell's Captivity — Two Touching Instances of Indian Generosity— Adventures of Young James Ray — Four Hours under Fire and how Saved — How Readily Captive Boys became Indianized — Two Lads save the Life of a Girl — George Bozarth's Ruse and Escape — Two Boys in the Woods all Winter — A Boy Made to Slay Six Indians — Anecdotes of Indians 720-752

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

Daniel Boone Alone in the Wilderness, - - Frontispiece. Young Washington Hurled into the Icy Allegheny, - -21 Major Halket Discovers Skeletons of Father and Brother, 67 Young Smith Ducked in the River by Squaws, - - - 76 Indian Maid Betraying Pontiac's Plot to Gladwyn, - 128 Recovery of Captive Child by a Mother, - - - - 159 Abduction of the Boone and Calloway Girls, - - 261

Simon Kenton Takes a Mazeppa Ride, 305

Lewis Wetzel Slays Three in a Running Fight, - - 329 Major Sam. McColloch's Famous Plunge, - - - - 350 Capt. Sam. Brady, the Daring Partisan Leader, - - 426 Andrew Poe's Famous Combat with Big Foot, - - - 445 Two Victims offered to appease Gen. Clark, - - 488 Mike Fink, the "Last of the Keelboatmen," - 658

A Pioneer Woman Makes desperate Work, - - 698

The Little Johnson Lads Kill their Captors, - - 722

PREFACE,

The object of the following work is simple, and may be expressed in few words. We aim to exhibit to the present generation, a faithful and reliable portraiture of Western Frontier Life and Struggle. We confine ourselves ( hiefly to what may fitly be called the Heroic Age of the Border, embraced between Dunmore's War of 1774 and the Battle of Fallen Timbers, in 1794, when the power of the Western Confederation was forever crushed, and its coherence utterly destroyed by " Mad Anthony Wayne."

Never since, or even including, the feudal times of the Robber Barons of Germany, or of the Moss Troopers of Scotland, has that stormy and turbulent period been excelled for deeds of personal prowess and of dauntless, unrecking courage. It really seems as if the constant environment and familiarity with perils the most instant and appalling, had begotten for them an utter contempt. The iron-hearted and steel-nerved woodsmen of the Border appear absolutely to have known no fear, and to have bidden a grim and unflinching defiance to all danger, come in whatever Protean shape it might. They even seemed to court it and to grow restive at its absence. As with Fitz James —

If a path were dangerous known, The danger's self was lure alone.

The cruel and furious warfare that ever existed between the jealous red possessor and the resolute white invader of the Western soil, was one to the death and to the bitter end. It was, in fierceness and stubbornness, much like — and for the self-same reasons, too — that between God s wandering people and the nations beyond Jordan. Before them lay the promised Canaan — the " land flowing with milk and honey." They were bidden to go in and "possess it," and to smite the inhabitants thereof " hip and thigh." The contest was to be one of extermination to one side or the other — and the Jews won.

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We have sought to avoid overloading our work with cumbrous detail, hut tt connect together chronologically a few jnly of the more salient and memorable of the Combats, Massacres and Captivities with which that tempestuous period actually bristles ; to sketch some of the more prominent actors who best illustrate the spirit of that time, and to group together some representative facta and every-day occurrences, so as to give those of a far different age and occupation some idea of the domestic and social life of the wilderness — the sports, perils and privations of our Western Border, one hundred years ago.

The old and well-thumbed Border books of Pritts, Withers, Doddridge, De- Hass, McClung and McDonald — filled to repletion with the stirring adventures or harrowing sufferings of the exposed and oft-smitten Border — have long been out of print and cannot now be obtained "for love or money." These we have patiently sifted — in many instances corrected — and herein essay to give the very cream of them all, adding much fresh and interesting information gleaned from our researches in this line, or furnished us by the descendants of the Pioneers, or by those who have made Border History a specialty. It gives us pleasure, in this regard, to acknowledge our personal obligations to such enthusiastic and well-posted collectors as Lyman C. Draper, of Wisconsin ; Wills DeHass, of West Virginia ; Dr. W. A. Irvine, of Pennsylvania; C. W. Butterfield, of Bucyrus, Ohio ; General L. V. Bierce, of Akron, Ohio ; Messrs. Veech, Hampton, Craig and Schwartz, of Pittsburgh, and others, who have so cheerfully assisted us in our "labor of love."

It is great pity that the simple and unlettered actors in the rude and eventful old Border days recorded so little of their stirring deeds and conflicts, and that, hence, so much is now left to changing and confusing tradition. As one after another Pioneer has passed from the stage, the power of amending all this has been diminished. It is now, alas ! almost too late. What can yet be done, however, should speedily be done to rescue from oblivion the evanescent memories of days that are past; to supply existing deficiencies ; to correct the many errors which prevail, and to restore some degree of order to- the great confusion existing among Border Chronicles and Traditions. This is now so great as to amount, not only to marked discrepancies of fact, date and locality, but, in many instances, almost to positive contradictions. Such disorder rules as to justify, in a measure, the biting remark of that witty scoffer, Voltaire, that " History does not always lie."

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We have to do with a time and condition of our nation's progress so strange and of such marked peculiarity, that nothing like unto it can ever again occur. It is said of Sir "Walter Raleigh, that when once engaged writing history, he saw a fracas occur just before him, but was so disgusted and discouraged Uy the different and contradictory accounts brought of it, th^t he tore h\t manuscript into fragments, remarking, in effect, that since it was so difficult to record the exact truth about events happening right before one's eye, how impossible it must be to attain accuracy as to occurrences transpiring centuries before. There is a pregnant truth in the anecdote, and each yearmake3 the task of amending and justifying our Border History and Traditions more difficult. In this duty each " picker up of unconsidered trifles " has his value, for it is of such stuff that history is made.

We have striven to contribute our share ; taking pains to be correct; rejecting all we knew to be false ; supplementing, where possible, what was insufficient, and amending what was confusing and disjointed. While our aim is truth, we do not profess infallibility. If we can show through what perils, trials and privations our country has been won, we thereby show — and so attain the object of our work — how dearly prized it should be by all, and how sacred should be the memories of the old Pioneers and their families, who fought so heroically, suffered so patiently and endured so persistently, one hundred jwfvs

INDEX,

Page.

A.laquippa, Queen 21

Alder, Jonathan, captured 725

His strange return 728

Anecdotes of Indians 748

Audubon, Thrilling adventure of, 636

Bailey, "Mad Ann," of TV. Ya...

Bard Family, Captivity of.

Bald Eagle,*Murder of

Battle of Braddocks Fields

Of Blue Licks

Of Fallen Timbers

Of Bushv Run

Of Point Pleasant

Of Bloody Hun..

Benham, Major, his adventure

Bell, Sam'l, his deadly conflict

Biggs, William, made love to by

a handsome squaw

Bingaman kills seven Indians

Bloody Bun, Battle of.

Blue Licks, Battle of.

Boatinsr life on Western waters...

He moves to Kentucky

Left alone in the wilderness

Daughter stolen off.

Kills two savages

At Battle of Blue Licks

Son Israel killed

Last days of.

Death and burial of.

Portrait of ,..

Anecdotes of

" Barking squirrels"

Adventure of, related by himself ,

Boone, Rebecca, and how Daniel

won her

Boys of the Border, their pluck and spirit ,

Boy kills an Indian

How easily became Indianized,

Two remain in the woods all

Winter

Brady, Captain Sam'l, Sketch of..

Brady's Bend

Kills two savages at a shot

Attacks an Indian camp

Tracked by a dog

His famous "Leap"

His trial, marriage and death...

Bozarth, Geo., his ruse and escape, Bouquet, Colonel Henry

His battle of Bushv Run

719 722 722

Forces a peace and recovers hundreds of captives...... 156

Brickell's captivity 736

Bryant's and Hogan's party attacked 381

Brothers, Two little, captured 731

Butler, General Richard, hero of

North Bend council 502

Death of, at St. Clair's defeat... 539

Cacasotte, throws fourteen robbers

overboard 681

Canadian, French 13

Captivities — Col. James Smith 75

McCullough 304

Bard Family 225

John Brickell 736

Jonathan Alder 725

Mrs. Clendenin 713

Colonel Crawford 456

Massy Harbison 685

Casey, Wm., a lad, saves his sister, 744 Catawbas, Cherokees and Chicka-

saws 6

Clark, George Rogers, Sketch of... 477

Marches on Kaskaskia 481

Treatment of Indians 485

His strange march 490

Takes Vincennes 495

His disappointment and death.. 498

At North Bend council 500

Clendenin. Mrs., Capture of 713

Colter's famous race for life 644

Conestoga Indians, Massacre of... 177 Cook, The widows, their heroic defence 715

Cornstalk, Chief 166

Murder of, and son 166

Coureurs des Bois 15

Crawford, Colonel William 449

Who he was 451

Expedition against Sandusky. . 454

His defeat and capture 456-45^

Interview with Girty 460

Awful tortures and death of..... 462 Crepps and Crist, their desperate

boat fight 610

Crow, the Misses, Murder of. 702

Cunningham, Mrs. , Capture of, and

saved by Girty 705

Cunningham, Mrs. Edward, her valor 714

Dalzell, Captain 142

Death of. 14a

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Darke, Lt. Col., his daring and escape 546

Daviess, Mrs. Samuel, Courage of, 699 Davis, Caffree and McClure, their

fierce combat with Indians — 615

Deer drives and ring hunts 101

Delaware Indians 6

Dennis, Hannah, Escape of 712

Detroit, Siegeof 127

Downing, Francis, saved by a bear, 734

Dunbar, the Tardy 45-60

Dunmore's War 161

Duquesne, Fort 22

Braddock's expedition against.. 40 Capture of 64

Elliott,Capt., deserts to the British 392 Emigration, Western — odd scenes, 650

English traders 13

Eries, Destruction of 7

Erlewyne, Ered., a lad, captured.. 723 Estill, Captain, his well-fought action and death 269

Fink, Mike, last of the keelboat-

men 655

His feats and death.... 666-669

Fleming, The Misses, adventures, 569

Sad plight of, and rescue 594

Flinn, the hunter, Sad fate of 589

Forts, Presq' Isle 125

Detroit 127

Duquesne 22

Henry 515

Sieges of 523

Necessity 23

Machillimackinac 117

Franklin as a commander 23G

French Canadian 13

Game and deer drives of olden time 659

Girty, James 618

Girty, Simon, before Brvant's station \ 274

Saves Kenton 309

At Crawford's torture 461

Not at h'rst siege of Wheeling... 517

But at second 523

Repentant 618

Saves Mrs. Cunningham 705

Deserts from Fort Pitt 392

Sketch of 418

His attack on Bryant's station.. 271

Marries Kate Miilott 418

Death of 424

Halket, Sir Peter 44

His death 55

Singular discovery of his remains by his sun 66

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Hammond and the Bennetts, Escape of 62S

Harmar, Gen., his campaign and

defeat 530

Harris, John, of Harrisburg 234

Harbison, Massy, Touching narrative of 685

Harrod, James, Life and adventures of 605

Nurses a wounded Indian........ 508

Mysterious death of. 509

Hart, Silas, his son avenges him. ... 745

Henry, Alexander, the trader 118

His adventures.. 121

Higgins, the Ranger, Obstinate combat of , t 641

Holland, Luke, his sagacity at

trailing 647

Hubbell, Captain, Desperate attack on boat of. 604

Obstinate defence 606

Hughes, Jesse, mountain hunter.., 569

Hurons, The 6

Indians, Anecdotes of. 748

Introduction 1

Iroquois or Six Nations 7

Jack, Captain, the wild hunter of

the Juniata 56-109

Jesuit Pioneers 14

Johonnet, Jackson, Singular adventures of 632

Johnson Boys, Remarkable exploits of 721

Johnson, Sir William, Baronet... 243 Peculiar education of his

daughters 245

Author's late visit to Johnson Hall and Castle 248

Kennan, the Ranger, his race for

life 542

Gallantry 545

Kennedy, Peter, Combat and escape of.. 510

Kenton, Simon 293

Remarkable adventures of 301

Saved by Girty 309

Meets Logan 312

His last years 315

Appearance of ' 318

Adventure with Wetzel 325

Adventures with Ward and

Calvin 598

Kentucky in the olden time 254

Kentucky, Women of 273

Sports of 290

Kentucky, Adventures of five

boys of. 721

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Kirk, a lad, made to slay six Indians 747

Kirkwood, Captain Kobert 546-675

Knights of Golden Horseshoe 2

Knight, Dr. John, his wonderful

escape 468

Lewis, General Andrew 164

Little Turtle, a chief 546

Logan, Benjamin 352

After battle of Blue Licks 284

Logan, the famous Mingo Chief... 170

Death of 175

Logan, Captain, a Shawnee chief, 360

His romantic death 363

Logston, "Big Joe" 369

Machillimackinac, Fort, captured, 117 Marshall, Thos.,and Jas. Girty... 618 Mason, Mrs. George, kills one and

frightens a score 711

Massawomee Indians 6

May, John, Johnston, Flinn and

Skyles, Adventures of 571

Merrill, Mrs. John, the " Long- Knife Squaw" 698

Messhawa, a noble chief. 577-585

Fights with Tecumseh 597

Miller, The Brothers, and their

adventures 555-558

Minter, Captain John, his famous

bear fight 662

McAfee Brothers, Adventure of... 379

McClellan, Eobert, the Banger.... 554

His life and extraordinary feats, 562

His later exploits 566-571

McCullough, John, Captivity of... 204 McColloch, Major Samuel, at siege

of For' Henry 520

McGary, Hugh, at Blue Licks 277

His defence.., 283

Kills Moluntha 360

McKee, Captain, deserts to the

British 392

McManimy, Torture of 227

McConnel's capture and revenge.. 377 Mills, Thos., riddled with bullets, 679

Moluntha, Murder of , 358

Montour, Catharine, alias Queen

Esther 628

Moravian mission 397

Towns destroyed 400

Massacre of 403

Moredock, Colonel John, his terrible revenge .., 633

Alorgan, David, his desperate conflict 385

Morgan, Levi, his stratagem for his life 678

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Muldrow, how he found his neighbor 664

Northwestern campaign 529

Ogilvie, Pleasant adventure of. ... 639 One hundred years ago 1-8

Pack-horseing o52

Perry, Levi and Reuben, two little boys, in woods all Winter, 746

Pioneers, Life and customs of 183

Hardships of 187

Woodcraft and hunting 191

"Weddings, frolics and amusements of 193

Pioneer women 4-5

Of Kentucky 273

Their trials and heroism 685

Pipe, Captain 389

Pitt, Fort, Guyasutha's siege of... 148 Poe, Aiiui'ew and Adam, their famous light with Bigiuot 445

Andrew's tussle with a bull 447

His narrow escape 448

Pontiac, Conspiracy of. 112

Character of 114

Anecdotes of 134

Death of 147

Point Pleasant, Battle of 161

Purdy Family, Massacre of. 672

Ray, James, Adventures of 740

Reynolds, Lieut., chaffing Girty.. 276

Gallantry of 281

Rice's Fort, Attack on 528

Rose, Major John, at Crawford's

expedition 455

Schoolmaster attacked by wild cat, 383

Scarrooyaddy, Chief. 18

Scott, Frances, Wanderings of..... 706 Scraggs, Widow, fierce attack on

her cabin 695

Sevier, Ruth, marries a Shawnee

Chief 717

Shawnees 6

Six Nations 7

Slocum, Frances, the lost sister... 630 Slover, John, the guide, Capture

and adventures of 468

His escape and mad ride 471

Smith, Col. James, his captivity.. 75

His marriage 105

Takes a British fort 107

Smith, Major, how he recovered

his sweetheart 667

St. Clair, Sir John 46

St. Clair, General ArJiur, his

campaign and defeat 537

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^iair, Louisa, the dashing and

beautiful 710

Stobo, Major Kobert 26

Kemarkable adventures of 29

His escape from Quebec 31

Captures two ships 35

Thomas, Captain John, massacre

of family 674

Tush Family, Massacre of 673

Van Buskirk, Sad death of 671

Van Campen, Major, his wonderful combat 621

Vincennes, Capture of 495

Ward, Captain James, and the fat

Dutchman 619

Ward, Calvin and Kenton's adventures 598

War Belt, legend of North Bend.. 500 Washington, George, his first visit

to the West 17

To Venango 19

Hurled into the Allegheny and

shot at 20

His first campaign 23

Surrenders Fort Necessity 25

Sick on the march 46-49

itesaduei t/A Braddocks Fields... §Q

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Wayne, "Mad Anthony," Campaign of 54"

Weiser, Conrade 231

Wells, Capt. William, the Eanger,

and daring exploits 554-559

Wells, Jack, and his dream 372

Wild white man and his story 665

Wetzel family 319

Martin captured 320

John's adventures 321

As a boy 723

Jacob and Kenton 325

Lewis the most daring and famous 327

Captured when a boy..... 328

Kills three savages in a running