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Table of Contents

Chapter VI

Shawnee Towns on Hacker's Creek     Wi-ya-ni-pe, Birth Place of Tecumseh; Old Chillicothe. Shawnee Cist Burial. Tecumseh's Pipe     Wi-ya-ni-pe, the Indian's Paradise. Wild Fruits     Game     Fish. Alexander West, Scout and Hunter     Bear Fight in the Dark. Wild Boars. Hunting Stories     Dangerous Joke     A Fearful Tragedy. John Hacker First Settler     Chases Buffaloes     Exploration. Dearth of Bread     Pathetic Incident. Deadly Cold of the Mountains.   Death of a Guide.   A Mountain Tragedy.

Notes     Traditions of Mines. The Shawnees     Summary of History. Statesmen and Warriors.   Descendants of Tecumseh.

Chapter VII

The Stroud Family Murdered by Shawnees. Delaware Settlement on Little Kanawha. Captain Bull Friend of the Whites     His Village and People Destroyed     Treachery of the Settlers     Names of the Murderers     Pathetic Story of Capt. Bull.

Notes     Gaulouise the Trapper. The Delawares     Their Home     Tribal Status     Story of the "Woman." Renegade White Kills Indians     Shawnees not the Aggressors.

Chapter VIII

Terrible Culmination to the Bulltown Massacre     Unrestrained Fierceness of the Borderers     Jesse Hughes and Capt. William White Leaders     Indians Discovered at Indian Camp on the Buckhannon     The Surprise and Butchery     A Wounded Indian's Greeting     The Leaden Reply     Were the Victims Buried? An Aged Nimrod's Gruesome Find.   Interesting Tradition.   Abundance of Game

    A Bear Shambles.

Chapter IX

John Cutright, Scout of the Buckhannon     An Indian Moccasin Maker     Confusion of Names     Indian Incursions     Shoots Indian Horse Thief   Wounded by an Indian     Primitive Surgery     Revolutionary Soldier     Declaration for Pension     Services as Scout and Soldier     Branded an Impostor     Honesty Proven     Ability as a Warrior     Errors Corrected     Personal Appearance of Cutright     Hatred for the Red Race     Attempts to Kill Indian in Time of Peace.

Notes     Virginia Hard Pressed for Troops     Loss in Battle of Germantown

    Appalling Destitution Among the State Soldiery. Disputed Boundary Between Virginia and Pennsylvania     Hauteur of the Virginia Minute Man     Efficiency in Indian Warfare     Unreliability in Open Battle.   British Estimate of the "Shirt Man."

Chapter X

Requisites of a Scout Leader     Capt. White, Chief of Buckhannon Spies     Ancestry     Associate of Col. Crawford     Kills Indians in the Glades     Imprisoned     Liberated by Mob     Status of Border Society     A Romance of the Wilderness     An Indian Runner     Cunning Ruse     Mysterious Captive     Insatiate Venom     Indian Camp Surprised     Desperate Chase     Sickening Scene     An Indian's Revenge     Death of Capt. White. John Fink Killed. Timothy Dor-man, Renegade. Buckhannon Fort Abandoned. Jacob Bush, Scout and Soldier    In Clark's Campaign 1781. Incidents     Drink of Whiskey for Brain of a Deer. Descendants     Lieut. Jacob Westfall     Military Record     With Gen. Clark     Lochry's Defeat     Failure of Expedition. "Flight of 1770"     Doubtful Narrative     Shaver the Spy     Kaskaskie Campaign     Wounded in Battle     Suffered Injustice.

Notes     Lieut. John White Killed.     Deserters or Indians? Outrages by Settlers Laid to Indians.   Col. John Sevier.   Capture of Capt. White and Petro