1881 INDIAN WARS Massacres U.S. Pioneer History Military Army Forts DANIEL BOONE

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1881 INDIAN WARS Massacres U.S. Pioneer History Military Army Forts DANIEL BOONE:
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Historical Matter Discussed in this Work (General/Partial Only, Please See Full Contents in Main Description Below): Our Western Border Charles McKnight Indian Wars Border Wars Ohio River Valley Old Northwest Territory Western Emigration Settlers Pioneers Frontier Kentucky Tennessee Torture Massacres Savages Erie Indians Allegheny River Fort Necessity George Washington West General Braddock Fort Duquesne Sir Peter Halket Fanny Braddock Colonel James Smith Catawba Indians Hunting Bear Fox Raccoon Squaws Beaver Indian Customs British Fort Captain Jack Juniata River Pontiac Conspiracy Michillimackinac Presque Isle Fort Detroit Ojibwa Battle of Point Pleasant Conestoga Indians Mingo Western Pioneers John McCullough Daniel McManimy John Harris Harrisburg Pennsylvania Neetmok Onondaga Daniel Boone Kentucky Boonseborough Bryant’s Station Simon Kenton Langtrea Lewis Martin Jacob John Wetzel Captain William Hardin Dunmore\'s War Moravian Massacre Simon Girty Fort Pitt Moravian Gnadenhutten Massacre Upper Sandusky Andy Poe Cuyahoga River Colonel Crawford General Daniel Morgan General George Rogers Clark Vincennes Fort Surrender Fort Henry Betty Zane Gunpowder Exploit General Harmar Thomas Jopado Northwestern Campaign General St. Clair General Butler Mad Anthony Wayne Van Campen Wyoming Massacre Frances Slocum Colonel John Moredock Mike Fink Keelboat Captain Minter Bear Fight Captain Van Buskirk Purdy Family Massacre Pioneer Women Mad Ann Bailey West Virginia Louisa St. Clair Hannah Dennis Mrs. Clendenin Mrs. Cunningham Johnson Boys Jonathan Alder Francis Downing John Brickell James Ray George Bozarth

OUR WESTERN BORDER. Its Life, Forays, Scouts, Combats, Massacres, Red Chiefs, Adventures, Captivities, Pioneer Women, One Hundred Years Ago. Containing the Cream of All the Rare Old Border Chronicles, (Now Long Out of Print and Almost Impossible to Procure,) Together With a Large Amount of Fresh and Original Matter Derived from Authentic Sources, the Whole Work Embracing Strange and Thrilling Narratives of Captivities, Daring Deeds, Desperate Conflicts, Exciting Adventures, Personal Prowess, and Aiming, by Judicious Selections, To Present the Fullest, Most Varied and Most Reliable Portrayal of Border Struggles and Adventure Yet Published. Carefully Written and Compiled by Charles McKnight. Published in 1881 by J.C. McMurdy & Co., Philadelphia. 9” x 6” decorated cloth hardcover. “Illustrated by the Very Best Artists.” 752 pages.

Condition: Exterior as shown in photo. Inner hinges have rough but reliable glue repairs. Firm binding. Front blank endpaper absent. Text is complete. Foxing. Title page and frontis have heavier foxing and some moisture blemishes. No torn or loose pages. P.S. I\'m currently also offering a deluxe antique leather edition of this book on as a Buy It Now. See No. 352307662035

DESCRIPTION:

This is a richly illustrated collection of tense and frequently violent episodes along America’s original Western border – the Ohio River Valley and what was known as the Northwest Territory. From 1774 to 1794, the Ohio Valley was the scene of numerous conflicts between white pioneers and the original Indian inhabitants. All too often these disputes ended in death and bloodshed.

OUR WESTERN BORDER focuses on the twenty-year span between 1774 and 1794, a period when Daniel Boone and other white adventurers began establishing settlements in the aboriginal wilderness. The presence of white men did not sit well with the local tribes. Raids, ambushes, kidnappings and massacres of entire families by Indians were not uncommon. The hostilities escalated until at last the military came to the settlers’ defense and engaged in open warfare with the Indians.

The lengthy subtitle of the book gives you a good idea of the thrills you can expect to find preserved in this wonderful old volume:

”Containing the Cream of all the Rare Old Border Chronicles, (Now Long Out of Print and Almost Impossible to Procure,) together with a Large Amount of Fresh and Original Matter Derived from Authentic Sources, the Whole Work Embracing Strange and Thrilling Narratives of Captivities, Daring Deeds, Desperate Conflicts, Exciting Adventures, Personal Prowess, and Aiming, by Judicious Selections, to Present the Fullest, Most Varied, and Most Reliable Portrayal of Border Struggle and Adventure Yet Published.”

And the Preface goes on to say:

We aim to exhibit to the present generation, a faithful and reliable portraiture of Western Frontier Life and Struggle. We confine ourselves chiefly 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. 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 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.

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.

This is a stunning collection of life and death on America’s first frontier and original Western border. To give you the most accurate description of this rare old book, I have provided some helpful details below, starting with complete summaries of the Contents and the illustrations. You can also see some of these historic images for yourself further down this page. I hope you’ll take a few moments to have a look.

CONTENTS ARE:

CHAPTER ONE: Introduction * Destruction of the Erie Tribe of Indians * Contrast Drawn between the French Canadian and the English Trader * Washington\'s First Visit to the Great West * He is hurled into the Allegheny and shot at by a Savage * Washington\'s First Campaign * The Surrender of Fort Necessity * Remarkable Adventures of Major Robert 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\'s Retreat and Death * Capture of Fort Duquesne * Colonel Grant\'s Defeat * Highland Rage * 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

CHAPTER TWO: 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 Presque 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 Famous Mingo Chief Massacre of the Conestoga Indians

CHAPTER THREE: Life Ok 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 * Neetmok * 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 abcxs Lost Wife * Origin of the Indian Term \"Long-Knives\" * John Harris, Founder of Harrisburg, Pa. * Dr. Benjamin Franklin as a Commander * Comrade Weiser and the Onondaga Chief * Border Forts, Stations and Block-Houses * A \"Singular Will Case on the Border * Sir William Johnson, Baronet * \"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

CHAPTER FOUR: Daniel Boone, Pioneer of Kentucky * Kentucky as it was in the Olden 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 * Running a bloody Gauntlet * Girty Chaffed by Reynolds * Disastrous Battle of the Blue Licks * Boone\'s Son Killed * Thrilling Incidents * Reynolds\' 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 Ride * Escape and Recapture * Girty Intercedes and Saves his Friend * A Savage Axe Blow * Kenton meets Logan * Butler Changes his Name to Kenton * His Lust 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

CHAPTER FIVE: The Zane Family Who Settled Wheeling * Shooting Adventures * Major Samuel McColloeh and his Famous Leap * Benjamin Logan and his 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 Romantic 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 Robert Bonham.and his Strange Adventure * McConnell’s Capture and Signal Revenge * Doherty’s description * 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

CHAPTER SIX: God\'s Mighty Work In The Wilderness * King Pomoacon Destroys the Moravian Towns and Carries the Inhabitants Captive * Frightful Massacre of 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 out to be a Russian Nobleman

CHAPTER SEVEN: 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 Sharp Shooting * Major Hay Trembles * Curious Incident * Fort Surrender* 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 of Boone, related by himself.

CHAPTER EIGHT: 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 Langtrea incident * 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 abcxs Brother * Five Rangers Attack a Camp * McClellan Rescued by a Girl * More of McClellan\'s Adventures * Alone in a Desert and Reduced to Starvation

CHAPTER NINE: A Series or 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 \"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

CHAPTER TEN: 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 * Jena Hughes, the Mountain Hunter * Sad Death of Captain 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 Life * Riddled with Bullets and yet escapes * A Handsome Squaw makes Love to Biggs * Cacasotte throws Fourteen Bobbers Overboard

CHAPTER ELEVEN: Pioneer Women * Their Trials And Heroism * Touching Narrative of Massy Harbison * Desperate Attack on Widow Scraggs\' Cabins * Mrs. Merrill, the Terrible V Long-Knife\" Squaw * Family of Mrs. Daviess Captured * A Rescue * Murder of the Two Misses Crow * Desperate Attack on the Cunningham’s * Captivity and wanderings of Mrs. Frances Scott * Rebecca 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 * Ruth Sevier marries a Shawnee Chief * The \" Isaac and Rebecca \" of West Virginia

CHAPTER TWELVE: 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 * Anecdote* of Indians

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS: Daniel Boone Alone In The Wilderness, Frontispiece * Young Washington Hurled Into The Icy Allegheny * Major Halket Discovers Skeletons Of Father And Brother * Young Smith Ducked In The River By Squaws * Indian Maid Betraying Pontiac\'s Plot To Gladwyn * Recovery Of Captive Child By A Mother * Abduction Of The Boone And Calloway Girls * Simon Kenton Takes A Mazeppa Ride * Lewis Wetzel Slays Three In A Running Fight * Major Sam. Mccolloch\'s Famous Plunge * Capt. Sam. Brady, The Daring Partisan Leader * Andrew Poe\'s Famous Combat With Big Foot * Two Victims Offered To Appease Gen. Clark * Mike Fink, The \"Last Of The Keelboatmen\" * A Pioneer Woman Makes Desperate Work * The Little Johnson Lads Kill Their Captors

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Note: Some of the photos below are from another edition of this book I sold on previously. I decided to use them as a time-saving measure, since the same illustrations are featured in the book currently at sale. There may be slight variations in foxing/toning, etc. FOLKS, THIS IS AN 1881 ORIGINAL. THIS BOOK IS 137 YEARS OLD!!!

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