Sketches of Western Adventure: Containing an Account of the Most Interesting Incidents Connected with the Settlement of the West, from 1755 to 1794 ; with an AppendixRichard H. Collins & Company, 1872 - 398 páginas |
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Sketches of Western Adventure: Containing an Account of the Most Interesting ... John Alexander McClung Visualização integral - 1872 |
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afterward alarm appeared approach arms army arrived attack attempt bank battle became Big Foot boat body Boone Boonesborough Brady brother cabin camp canoe Captain Captain Pipe chief Chillicothe Colonel command companions compelled creek crossed danger death determined dians distance encamped enemy escape expedition fate feet fell fire Fort Jefferson Fort Washington friends garrison Girty ground halted hand head heard horses hour hunting instantly Ioways John Wetzel Johnston Kenton Kentucky killed length Lewis Lewis Wetzel Licks Logan Maysville miles morning night Ohio Ohio River party of Indians passed Phouts Point Pleasant prisoner pursuit quickly rapidly reached retreat rifle river Sandusky savages scalp scarcely seized Shawnee shot side Simon Girty Skyles Slover Smith soon spot spring squaw stood tion tomahawk Tontileaugo took town tribes troops turned village Virginia warriors Wetzel Wheeling Creek whole wigwam woods wounded yells young
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Página 305 - I found the road strewed with them for many miles, but was not able to remedy it; for, having had all my horses killed, and being mounted upon one that could not be pricked out of a walk, I could not get forward myself, and the orders I sent forward, either to halt the front or to prevent the men from parting with their arms, were unattended to.
Página 139 - Girty then came up to me and bade me prepare for death. He said, however, I was not to die at that place, but to be burnt at the Shawanese towns.
Página 304 - Darke was accordingly ordered to make a charge with part of the second line, and to turn the left flank of the enemy. This was executed with great spirit. The Indians instantly gave way, and were driven back three or four hundred yards ; but for want of a sufficient number of riflemen to pursue this advantage, they soon returned, and the troops were obliged to give back in their turn.
Página 192 - Four were killed upon the spot, and one (the second daughter) carried off as a prisoner. "The neighborhood was quickly alarmed, and by daylight about thirty men were assembled under the command of Colonel Edwards. A light snow had fallen during the latter part of the night, and the Indian trail could be pursued at a gallop. It led directly into the mountainous country bordering upon Licking, and afforded evidences of great hurry and precipitation on the part of the fugitives. Unfortunately a hound...
Página 176 - Adam, seeing his danger, struggled manfully to extricate himself from the folds of the giant, but in vain. The lesser Indian approached with his uplifted tomahawk, but Adam watched him closely, and as he was about to strike, gave him a kick so sudden and violent, as to knock the tomahawk from his hand, and send him staggering back into the water. Big Foot uttered an exclamation in a tone of deep contempt at the failure of his companion, and raising his voice to its highest pitch, thundered out several...
Página 109 - ... that the Kentuckians were all alike — very bad people — and ought to be killed as fast as they were taken; and finally, they observed that many of their people had come from a distance, solely to assist at the torture of the prisoner, and pathetically painted the disappointment and chagrin with which they would hear that all their trouble had been for nothing.
Página 190 - The hour was eleven o'clock at night. One of the unmarried daughters was still busily engaged at the loom, but the other members of the family, with the exception of one of the sons, had retired to rest. Some symptoms of an alarming nature had engaged the attention of the young man for an hour before any thing of a decided character took place. "The cry of owls was heard in the adjoining wood, answering each other in rather an unusual manner.
Página 109 - The speech was listened to in unbroken silence. As soon as he had finished, several chiefs expressed their approbation by a deep guttural interjection, while others were equally as forward in making known their objections to the proposal. They urged that his fate...
Página 73 - Kentuckian, and retired with an expression of- soprow for the inevitable destruction which awaited them on the following morning. He quickly rejoined the chiefs; and instant preparations were made for raising the siege. The night passed away in uninterrupted tranquillity, and at daylight in the morning, the Indian camp was found deserted. Fires were still burning brightly, and several pieces of meat were left upon their roasting sticks, from which it was inferred that they had retreated a short time...
Página 67 - Acting upon this impression, and yielding to the urgent necessity of the case, they summoned all the women, without exception, and explaining to them the circumstances in which they were placed, and the improbability that any injury would be offered them, until the firing had been returned from the opposite side of the fort, they urged them to go in a body to the spring, and each to bring up a bucket full of water.