Pioneer Women of the WestCharles Scribner, 1856 - 434 страници |
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afterwards alarm Anthony Bledsoe arrived Black Partridge Bledsoe boat Boone Boonesborough brother brought Brown Buffalo cabin called canoe Capt captivity Cherokees chief command commenced corn Creek Cumberland danger daughter death Detroit distance door early emigrants father fire forest Fort Snelling friends garrison Harper heard horse Hunt hunter husband Indians James Haynes John Sevier journey Kentucky killed lady lake land lived Marietta married Michigan miles morning mother mountains mouth neighbors Nickajack night North Carolina officers Ohio party passed pioneers Prairie du Chien prisoners procured reached residence rifle river savages Scioto Company sent settlement settlers Sevier side sister Snelling soldiers soon spirit spring station suffered Sumner County Tennessee tion tomahawk took town trader tree valley warriors wife wild wild turkeys wilderness winter woman women woods wounded young Ypsilanti
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Страница 176 - Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people : for all the earth is mine. And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation.
Страница 139 - ... across the way. Sometimes an ambuscade was formed by the way-side, and an unexpected discharge of several guns took place, so as to cover the wedding company with smoke. ." Let the reader imagine the scene which followed this discharge: the sudden...
Страница 137 - These last were very cold and uncomfortable in wet weather. The shirt and jacket were of the common fashion. A pair of drawers or breeches and leggins, were the dress of the thighs and legs, a pair of moccasins answered for the feet much better than shoes. These were made of dressed deer skin.
Страница 291 - I come to deliver up to you the medal I wear. It was given me by the Americans, and I have long worn it in token of our mutual friendship. But our young men are resolved to imbrue their hands in the blood of the whites. I cannot restrain them, and I will not wear a token of peace while I am compelled to act as an enemy.
Страница 137 - The hunting shirt was universally worn. This was a kind of loose frock, reaching half way down the thighs, with large sleeves, open before, and so wide as to lap over a foot or more when belted.
Страница 140 - Toward the latter part of the night, if any of the company, through weariness, attempted to conceal themselves, for the purpose of sleeping, they were hunted up, paraded on the floor, and the fiddler ordered to play "Hang out till to-morrow morning.
Страница 136 - The blockhouses were built at the angles of the fort. They projected about two feet beyond the outer walls of the cabins and stockades. Their upper stories were about eighteen inches every way larger in...
Страница 194 - ... destroyed what was left. Then going to take my mother along with them, the savages were prevailed upon, through the intercession of the Indian females, to let her remain at Salem till the next morning — the night being dark and rainy, and almost impossible for her to travel so far. They consented on condition that she should be brought into the camp the next morning, which was accordingly done, and she was safely conducted by our Indians to Gnadenhutten.
Страница 294 - Do you think they will take our lives? I am badly wounded, but I think not mortally. Perhaps we might purchase our lives by promising them a large reward. Do you think there is any chance?
Страница 296 - With a delicacy of feeling scarcely to have been expected under such circumstances, Wau-bee-nee-mah stretched a mat across two poles, between me and this dreadful scene. I was thus spared in some degree a view of its horrors, although I could not entirely close my ears to the cries of the sufferer. The following night five more of the wounded prisoners were tomahawked.