Life and Adventures of Lewis Wetzel: The Virginia Rancher; to which are Added Biographical Sketches of General Simon Kenton, General Benjamin Logan, Captain Samuel Brady Governor Isaac Shelby, and Other Heroes of the WestG.G. Evans, 1859 - 320 páginas |
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Life and Adventures of Lewis Wetzel, the Virginia Ranger: To which are Added ... Cecil B. Hartley Visualização integral - 1860 |
Life and Adventures of Lewis Wetzel, the Virginia Ranger: To which are Added ... Cecil B. Hartley Visualização integral - 1860 |
Life and Adventures of Lewis Wetzel, the Virginia Ranger: To which are Added ... Cecil B. Hartley Visualização integral - 1860 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
adventures alarm appeared arms army arrived attack bank battle beaver Blue Licks Brady's Brodhead brother cabin camp campaign canoe Captain Brady Captain John Brady CHAPTER COLONEL ROBERT PATTERSON command commenced companion corn Crawford crossed danger death dians discovered distance Elias Hughes encamped enemy escape expedition father feet fell fire forest Fort Augusta Fort Pitt friends frontier Girty Grave creek Harmar head heard horses hundred hunter hunting instantly Jesse Hughes John Wetzel Kenawha Kentucky killed land Lewis Wetzel Logan miles Moravian morning mouth murder Muskingum Muskingum river night officer Ohio river party of Indians Phouts Pittsburg Point Pleasant prisoners pursuit reached retreat returned rifle Samuel Brady Sandusky savages scalp settlements settlers Shelby shoot shot side Simon Girty Simon Kenton soon spot squaws tion tomahawk took trail tree Virginia warriors West Wheeling Wheeling Creek wilderness Williams woods wounded young
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Página 63 - An old squaw, whose appearance every way answered the ideas people entertain of the devil, got a board, took a parcel of coals and ashes, and laid them on his back and head, after he had been scalped. He then raised himself upon his feet and began to walk around the post.
Página 61 - When we went to the fire the Colonel was stripped naked, ordered to sit down by the fire, and then they beat him with sticks and their fists. Presently after I was treated in the same manner. They then tied a rope to the foot of a post about fifteen feet high, bound the Colonel's hands behind his back and fastened the rop* to the ligature between his wrists. The rope was long enough for him to sit down or walk round the post once or twice, and return the same way.
Página 258 - The governor of an independent state, greatly my superior in years, in experience, and in military character, he placed himself under my command, and was not more remarkable for his zeal and activity, than for the promptitude and cheerfulness with which he obeyed my orders.
Página 210 - At once there rose so wild a yell Within that dark and narrow dell, As all the fiends, from heaven that fell, Had peal'd the banner-cry of hell!
Página 46 - How exactly this will answer for the business,' he began with Abraham, and continued knocking down one after the other, until he had counted fourteen that he had killed with his own hands. He now handed the instrument to one of his fellow murderers, saying, « My arm fails me ! go on in the same way ! I think I have done pretty well...
Página 59 - Girty, who lived among the Indians, and was on this account permitted to go to town the same night, with two warriors to guard him, having orders at the same time to pass by the place where the Colonel had turned out his horse, that they might if possible find him.
Página 64 - Thus ended this disastrous campaign. It was the last one which took place in this section of the country during the revolutionary contest of the Americans with the mother country. It was undertaken with the very worst of views, those of...
Página 61 - I think not less than seventy loads were discharged upon his naked body. They then crowded about him, and to the best of my observation, cut off his ears : when the throng had dispersed a little, I saw the blood running from both sides of his head in consequence thereof. The fire was about six or seven yards from the post to which the Colonel was tied : it was made of small hickory poles, burnt quite thro' in the middle, each end of the poles remaining about six feet in length.
Página 62 - ... on him, so that in a short time he had nothing but coals of fire and hot ashes to walk upon.
Página 199 - They had just returned from Virginia or Kentucky, with some very fine horses. One grey horse in particular attracted his notice. He won every race until near evening, when, as if envious of his speed, two riders were placed on him, and thus he was beaten.