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Escape of White     Fate of Petro     Mrs. White Witnesses Killing of Husband. Monument to White and Fink. Treaty of Fort Stanwix. Indian Claims to the Trans-Allegheny.   Twenty Years War.

Chapter XI

Cause of Dunmore's War. Storm Brewing     Facts Perverted. Boone in Kentucky     Long Hunters     Indians Killed     Connolly's Warning.    Creasap's Declaration of War     Massacre of Logan's Family. Death of Bald Eagle     Killing of Cat Eye     Number of Friendly Indians Murdered     Indian Law of Reprisal. Storm Bursts on Virginia Border   Bloody Sequel     Murder of Cornstalk     Vengeful Shawnees. Jesse Hughes Defender of the Border     Hacker's Creek Invaded by Indians     West's Fort Besieged     Fort Abandoned.   Beech Fort     Hughes Memorable Night Run     Signal Cry from the Hill     Dangers of the Night Trail     Panthers     Wolves     A Daring Feat     Hughes Chased by Three Indians     Remarkable Endurance.

Notes     Character of the Kentucky Settlers. Franklin on War 1774     Indians Murdered East of Mountains     Sympathy for Logan. David Sleeth the Scout     Accusation of Singleton.   Jackson's Block House.

Chapter XII

Indian Raid in Tygart's Valley     Six Families Destroyed     Col. Lowther in Pursuit     Indians Surprised     A Deadly Volley     Capt. Bull Mortally Wounded. Jesse Hughes     Fiendish Deed     A Ghastly Joke. West and the "Yellow Boy"     Indian Horse Thieves     Two are Shot     Indian Idea of Justice

    Retaliatory Vengeance     Martha Hughes Captured. Attack on the West Families. Leonard Schoolcraft, Renegade     Heartrending Scene. West in Clark's Expedition 1781     Declaration for Bounty Lands     Personal Appearance.

Notes     Moccasin Making. Vision of the Red Doe. Story of a Forty Niner.   Poison for Indian Cattle Thieves. Gen. Clark     Difficulties Encountered in Procuring Troops     Contemplated Foray Against Moravian Indians. John Gibson.

Chapter XIII

The Schoolcraft Family     Its Fate     Five Brothers Swept into Captivity     Three Turn Indian     Career as Warriors     Two Unaccounted for     Mystery Solved     Schoolcraft the Hunter     The Phantom Deer.     Schoolcraft the Scout.

    Services along the Ohio. Indian Ambuscade Near Wheeling.   Mason and Oga! Companies Wiped Out. Simon Girty. Wheeling Threatened     Village Burned. Col. Broadhead's Allegheny Expedition     Scouting in Monongahela County. Wheeling in the Revolution     Besieged by Indians and British     Col. Zane's Defense of His Cabin     Choice or Surprise?   Testimony of Jacob Scott       Swiftness of Indian Descent     Length of Siege. Scouting in Kentucky     Campaigning with Gen. Clark.

Notes     Superstitions of the Wilderness     The Silent Trailing Dog     Singular Song from the Darkness. Pigeon Roosts     Slaughter of Birds. Last Great Flight. Col. Broadhead's Coshocton Expedition     Lawlessness of the Borderers     Executing Prisoners     Village Destroyed     Lewis Wetzel Tomahawks a Chief    Massacre of the Unarmed.

Chapter XIV

Jesse Hughes     Trapped by Two Indians     Cunning Ruse and Escape     Search for Lost Child     Kills Wounded Indian     Remarkable Fleetness of Indian Athlete     His Tragic Death.   Indian Motives.   Lone Indian Shot by West