| Joseph Pritts - 1841 - 550 páginas
...commanded, brought in not less than twenty prisoners, and killed more than an equal number. To show that desperate as they were in combat, that bravery was...who should be in the canoe but his Indian father and another, with their children ! As his comrades were coming forward with their rifles cocked, ready... | |
| Henry Howe - 1847 - 630 páginas
...The moment the canoe struck the shore, Wells heard the nicking of the cocks of his comrades' rifles, as they prepared to shoot the Indians ; but who should...his Indian father and mother, with their children ! The others were now coming forward with their rifles cocked and ready to pour in a deadly fire upon... | |
| Joseph Pritts - 1849 - 742 páginas
...only a part of their merit, is demonstrated by the following circumstance : On one of Captain Well's peregrinations through the Indian country, as he came...who should be in the canoe but his Indian father and another, with their children ! As his comrades were coming forward with their rifles cocked, ready... | |
| Joseph Pritts - 1849 - 774 páginas
...Well's peregrinations through the Indian country, as he came to the bank of the river St. IVJary.he discovered a family of Indians coming up the river...who should be in the canoe but his Indian father and another, with their children ! As his comrades were coming forward 538 FRONTIER MEN. with their rifles... | |
| Henry Howe - 1849 - 646 páginas
...The moment the canoe struck the shore, Wells heard the nicking of the cocks of his comrades' rifles, as they prepared to shoot the Indians ; but who should...his Indian father and mother, with their children ! The others were now coming forward with their rifles cocked and ready to pour in a deadly fire upon... | |
| Henry Howe - 1851 - 636 páginas
...The moment the canoe struck the shore, Wells heard the nicking of the cocks of his comrades' rifles, as they prepared to shoot the Indians ; but who should...his Indian father and mother, with their children ! The others were now coming forward with their rifles cocked and ready to pour in a deadly fire upon... | |
| John Frost - 1853 - 624 páginas
...The moment the canoe struck the shore, Wells heard the nicking of the cocks of his comrades' rifles, as they prepared to shoot the Indians ; but who should...his Indian father and mother, with their children ! The others were now coming forward with their rifles cocked and ready to pour in a deadly fire upon... | |
| John Frost - 1854 - 626 páginas
...the shore, Wells heard 'he nicking of the cocks of his comrades' rifles, as tlu-v prepared to*hoot the Indians; but who should be in the canoe but his Indian father and mother, with their children ! The others were now coming forward" with their rifles cocked and -ready to pour in a deadly fire... | |
| Roualeyn George Gordon Cumming - 1869 - 310 páginas
...moment the first canoe struck the shore, Wells heard the clicking of the locks of his comrades' rifles, as they prepared to shoot the Indians. But who should be in the canoe, but his Indian father, mother, and their children ! As his comrades were coming forward with their rifles cocked, ready to... | |
| Horace S. Knapp - 1872 - 758 páginas
...through the Indian country, as he came to the bank of the river St. Mary, he discovered a family ot Indians coming up the river in a canoe. He dismounted,...deadly storm upon the devoted Indians, Wells called to them to hold their hands and desist. He then informed them who those Indians were, and solemnly... | |
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