Border Wars of the West: Comprising the Frontier Wars of Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Tennessee, and Wisconsin; And Embracing Individual Adventures Among the Indians; And Exploits of Boone, Kenton, Clark, Logan, Brady, Poe, M

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The wars between the early settlers on the western frontier of our country and its aboriginal inhabitants form an extremely interesting portion of history. The long period of time through which these wars extend, the large number of actions which they embrace, the variety of adventures and instances of individual heroism which they display, and tho magnitude and importance of the territorial acquisitions in which they resulted, fully entitle them to form a separate history.
The Border Wars of the West, when we enter into their details, as gathered from the traditions received from those who were engaged in them, abound with interesting displays of human character. In them we may study the traits of the Indians, the terrible enemies of our forefathers, ancient possessors of the soil, who resisted their gradual but certain encroachments, with all the violence of savage fury and all the stratagems of barbarous subtlety and cunning. Here too we may learn many useful lessons from the traits of character exhibited by the border settlers, exposed by their position to all the horrors of the midnight surprise with the dreadful accompaniments of the warwhoop, the massacre, tho burning and plundering, murder and scalping, and followed by the weary sorrows of Indian captivity. We can never cease to admire the courage and fortitude with which the old border heroes and their not less heroic wives confronted the dangers of a life on the frontier, and the activity, promptness, and determination with which they met and punished every assault.
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