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Captain John Smith.--His adventures in Turkey.--Three single combats and as many victories.--Prisoner of a princess.--Her suspicious brother.--Escape.--The Jamestown Colony.--Smith, sticking in a quagmire, is captured by Indians.--Pocahontas, the king's daughter.--She saves Smith's life and makes a pet of him.--Follies of the colony.--Coronation of Powhatan.--Smith's fight with the big Indian.--Starvation.--A meal of powdered wife.--Betrayal and capture of Pocahontas.--Rolfe in love.--The marriage and death of the Indian princess.--Smith's hobbies.--He dies neglected and in want. Pages 17-69

The greatest French explorer.--His saint-like predecessor, Marquette.--A grave in a wilderness.--La Salle's ambition.--Life in the fort.--Building The Griffin.--Up the lakes.--Loss of The Griffin.--La Salle journeys on foot from the Illinois to Montreal.--Bankruptcy and ruin.--Tonty's six gifts, and their significance.--The second attempt.--Down the Mississippi.--The fort on "Starved Rock."--The simpleton of Versailles.--French re-enforcements.--Four vessels set sail from France for the Delta of the Mississippi.--Shipwreck of them all.--Lost in a Texan wilderness.--Suffering and treachery.--La Salle attempts to reach the Illinois.--His assassination, Pages 70-188

The Pilgrim Fathers.--Difficulties with the Indians.--A hole in the ice, and a corpse in the hole.--King Philip's war.--Shot on the way from church.--A brave servant-girl.--Siege of a cabin.--Burning of the towns.--The fight at Hadley.--Appearance of the Angel of the Lord.--The great swamp fight.--Firing of the Indian fort.--Massacre of the savages.--King Philip and Captain Church.--Closing struggled of the two great antagonists.--King Philip killed.--The pleasures of peace, Pages 121-145

The old French war.--Chopping a path through the forest for the British army.--A lonely defile.--Lurking foes.--Ambuscade and massacre.--The rout of Braddock.--Ferocity of the savages.--War horrors.--Panic of the pioneers.--Assassination of the missionaries.--Twelve reapers killed in a field.--The odor of burnt flesh.--One Indian takes nineteen scalps in a single day.--The Wild Hunter of the Juniata.--The fall of Quebec.--The British Lion supplants the Lilies of France, Pages 146-173

Captain Rogers.--His fierce scouts.--Their exploits on Lake George.--English scalps worth sixty francs.--The Rangers on skates give chase to nine sleds on the ice.--A fearful race.--The triumph of men over brutes.--Fort William Henry.--A debauch on Saint Patrick's Eve.--Saved by the Rangers.--Burning of the fort.--An awful battle.--An insane guide.--The St. Francis expedition.--A two hundred mile march.--An Indian wedding feast.--Destruction of the village, Pages 174-198

Major Robert Stobo.--Held as a hostage.--In prison as a spy.--Escape.--Recapture.--Dungeon and chains.--Another flight.--Down the St. Lawrence.--Companions in misery.--Capture of a vessel.--Liberty and life.--Colonel James Smith.--Captured by Indians.--Life in a wigwam.--A night in a hollow tree.--A sweathouse.--Escape and capture by the French.--The Bard family.--An assault on a cabine.--Death and captivity.--Briers in bare feet.--Mrs. Bard scratched and beaten by the squaws.--Her release purchased by her husband, Pages 199-231

The mighty chieftain of the Ottawas.--The conspiracy.--Council of infernal peers.--The plot at Detroit.--Warned by an Indian girl.--Guns hidden under blankets.--Foiled.--Presqu' Isle.--An Indian mine.--Fire and sword.--Surrender of the haggard garrison.--Michillimackinac.--The game of ball.--Success of the stratagem.--Butchery of the garrison.--The trader Henry's adventures.--Hidden in a garret.--Discovered.--A friend in need.--Carried away.--The siege of Detroit.--A vast fire-ship.--A midnight sally.--Attacked in a ravine.--Bloody defeat.--The fight around Campan's house.--Retreat of the survivors.--Boquet's expedition.--The circular fight.--Wreck of the Lake Erie expedition.--The Paxton boys.--A panic in Philadelphia.--Peace.--Pontiac's death, Pages 232-298

An American castle.--A symmetrical maiden.--Sir William Johnson.--The Five Nations.--A terrible wrestling match.--Conquests of the Iroquois.--The Revolution.--Brant and the English landlord.--A gay rider in the dust.--Old Fort Schuyler.--A faithful dog.--The siege.--Battle in the swamp.--Brant's cruelties.--Massacre of three hundred whites.--Invasion of the Indian country.--An ear of corn twenty-two inches long.--Burning of Ellis's mills.--An amour of a Dutch trader.--Brant in old age, Pages 299-360

Jacob Sammons.--Going for beer.--The flight from prison.--A pleasant woman and a jealous husband.--Bitten by a rattlesnake.--Frederick Sammons.--Attacked by pleurisy.--Fourteen days in the rain.--Recaptured.--Fetters which wear the flesh to the bone.--The island prison.--In the St. Lawrence, Pages 361-368

1777 on the frontiers.--An attack at milking-time.--Cornstalk's faithfulness to the whites rewarded with assassination.--The siege of Wheeling.--A decoy.--Eleven lives lost.--An assaults.--The bravery of the women.--A girlish heroine.--The foreman massacre.--An old scout.--A find in a forest.--Death, Pages 369-387

Transformation.--The escape of McConnel.--Capture.--Sleeping in bonds.--The knife.--Killing his captors.--A race for life.--A fight in a fog.--Old Morgan's strength.--Biting off a finger.--An American Meg Merrilles.--The black horse.--Through the wilderness.--The great fight of Poe and Big Foot.--Five Kentucky boys and their pluck.--Drawing the claret.--The boys kill their keepers and escape.--A strange story.--The first Chickamauga.--The attack on Widow Scraggs's cabin.--"Keep the door shut!"--Driven out by the flames.--Mrs. Merrill's bravery.--The sufferings of Massy Harbison.--One hundred and fifty thorns in her feet and legs.--The blood avenger.--The wizard's punishment, Pages 388-442

The Wetzel family.--A tomahawk in a brain.--A gleam of romance.--Turkeys which turned out to be Indians.--Lewis Wetzel.--Laying in wait.--The tragedy.--Cornered in a shanty.--In prison.--"I have lived like a man, let me die like one."--Liberty.--Love.--Two years in a Spanish dungeon, Pages 443-463

Simon Kenton.--The tortures of love.--Flight to the wilderness.--Stealing horses from the Indians.--Unable to ford the Ohio.--Captured and whipped.--Eight times exposed to the gauntlet.--Three times tied to the stake.--The burning-glass story.--Old age and disappointment, Pages 464-479

Father and son.--A rum experience.--Talking by the roadside.--Three rifleshots.--Scalped.--Sam Brady.--A dull Dutchman.--Touching elbows.--Brady's Leap, Pages 480-489

Westward, ho!--A ruined cabin.--Devoured by wolves.--A flask of whiskey.--Thirsty squaws.--Boone's family.--Capture of the girls.--The rescuing party.--An uplifted tomahawk.--Haggard with hunger.--Siege of Boonesborough.--Tracked by a blood-hound.--Boone swallows a butcher-knife.--Frightened women.--Bringing in the water.--The terrible battle of Blue Licks.--Later years, Pages 490-516

The missionaries.--Picturesque Bethlehem.--A noted inn.--Venison, partridges, and poultry.--Wine for the wicked.--The Moravian Indians.--No rest for the weary.--Gnadenhutten.--Driven from home.--Hunger and hardship.--Savage Christians.--The awful massacre.--The bloody mallet.--Ninety crushed skulls.--Defeat, Pages 517-541

The renegade.--Frightening the Moravians.--The beautiful Katy Malott--The attack on Dunlap's Station.--Relief party from Cincinnati.--Blind, drunken, and wretched, Pages 542-553

The Sandusky expedition.--The army on the march.--A bad omen.--A deserted village.--Indian spies.--The enemy in sight.--The first day's battle.--A hat for a water-bucket.--The second day.--The attack at nightfall.--Rout of the whites in the grove.--The fatal cranberry marsh.--The retreat.--Shot on the river bank.--The poisoned kettle.--A Russian noble.--Slover and Paull.--Painted black.--The gauntlet.--Tossed to the dogs.--Sentenced to be burnt alive.--Interruption by a thunder-storm.--Miraculous escape.--Naked and bleeding.--Seventy-five miles in eleven hours.--Dr. Knight.--The foolish Tutelu.--His lies.--William Crawford.--Stake and flames.--"For Good's sake, shoot me through the heart!"--The spirit released, Pages 554-592

The massacre of Fort Louden.--A hollow tree for a home.--Half of a knife.--The emigrants.--Small-pox and Indians.--Rocks in the channel.--A child born during a battle.--Colonel Brown's family.--Treachery of the Indians.--A head cut half off.--Blood! Blood! Blood!--Crushing the Indian power.--A squaw's escape by swimming, Pages 593-612

The 4th of July.--Captured.-Encounter with the wild-cat.--Fight with an Indian boy.--Liberation, Pages 613-617

The Emperor Alexander.--Red Eagle as a boy--A rich man's home.--The idol of the people.--Tecumseh.--A false prophet.--Red Eagle's sweetheart.--Love and War.--The massacre of Fort Mims.--Card playing and drinking among the garrison.--The growing sand-heap.--The attack.--The hopeless defense.--"To the bastion!"--Red Eagle's nobility.--Searching the heaps of corpses.--The dog charge.--Jackson's campaigns.--Dale's famous canoe fight.--Mutinies.--The battle of the Horseshoe.--Surrender of Red Eagle, Pages 618-648

The change of name.--Mythical ancestry.--The good elder brother.--White scoundrels.--Red villains.--The great conspiracy.--The rogue of a prophet.--His miracles.--The sun darkened.--Tecumseh's love for his sister.--His ambition.--The night before the battle.--Tippecanoe.--Harrison's victory.--Tecumseh's rage.--Battle of the Thames.--Who killed Tecumseh? Pages 649-683

The Seminole's curse.--Blood-money.--Exile or war.--Massacred among the Palmetto trees.--Reign of terror on the plantations.--The "House of Blood."--Scalped in a parlor.--The tragedy in the flower garden.--Thirty skeletons in a row.--Fever, flood, and famine.--The conspirators in the chief's wigwam.--Knives glistening in the starlight.--The flight.--Osceola betrayed.--"I feel choked; you must talk."--The caged eagle.--The caged eagle.--The squeeze through the embrasure.--A fifty-foot leap.--Osceola's dungeon.--Despair.--Death.--Bloodhounds used in the war.--Coacoochee's capture.--The departure into perpetual exile, Pages 684-723

First chapter of an Indian Genesis.--Battles of the gods.--Tricked into a treaty.--Willing to die for his brother.--"Move."--Who is Black Hawk?--Stealing roasting-ears from one's own fields.--A dog banquet.--A squaw swims the Mississippi, carrying her child in her teeth.--"Paint me as I am."--The princely Keokuk--Gall and wormwood, Pages 724-739

The Carson family.--An old mare for supper.--Monsieur Le Beaver.--A tail for a shovel.--Political and domestic life of the smart animal.--The great Kit.--The trappers.--Winter life in a trappers' tent.--The ace of trumps.--A fight in the snow.--Two men in a fort.--The dash for life.--Twelve hundred dollar's worth of horses stolen.--Carson's pursuit.--Shot through the heart.--Terrible fight with grizzly bears.--The summer rendezvous.--The duel with the bully.--The "surround."--Othello's occupation gone.--The angry trader.--The Kansas border war.--The deserted home.--Fremont and Kit.--Through the Mexican lines.--Bleeding feet.--The runner.--General Carson.--Last sickness.--"Doctor, compadre, adios!" Pages 740-793

The Sioux.--Blanket Indians vs. Pantaloon Indians.--The riot at Yellow Medicine.--Little Crow's frightful conspiracy.--No suspicions aroused.--August 17, 1862.--The massacre begins.--A headless corpse.--Firing of the government buildings.--Panic of the whites.--Slaughter everywhere.--Sufferings of the flying refugees.--Depopulation of the country.--A charnal house.--"For God's sake, get your family, and fly!"--No mercy for women or children.--Boys brained while playing marbles.--Women butchered while making bread.--The house of children.--A night of agony.--Flight of the little sufferers.--Six weeks in the woods.--Snakes and insanity.--The battle at New Ulm.--The scene at St. Peter.--The flying multitude.--Arrival of troops.--Execution of the conspirators.--Two thousand persons massacred and forty thousand rendered homeless, Pages 794-835

The two problems.--The pierced noses.--A wild song.--The council at Lapwai.--The killing begun.--"Hurry up; hurry!"--A knife in a neck.--The soldiers.--Over the mountains.--White Bird Ca�on.--The slaughter of the whites.--A deserted inn.--The pursuit of Joseph.--"Indians! O God!"--Across the ranges.--The hog-back.--The battle.--Joseph escapes once more.--In the Yellowstone region.--Caught at last! Pages 836-860

NELSON LEE, THE TEXAN RANGER.--A dollar a day to be shot at.--Buckskin vs. Broadcloth.--The Ranger's Horse.--A "greeny's" first taste.--Seven hundred Comanches.--Tomahawks rising and falling.--A bullet in a bridle arm.--Bitten by a rattlesnake.--The noble Black Prince.--The cunning ranchero.--His successful stratagem.--On to the Rio Grande.--The surrender of the Rangers to Mexicans.--Lee escapes through a garden.--In the dark river.--Steep and slippery banks.--Lee forces two Mexicans to guide him.--The purchase of the watch.--A god or a devil--which?--The awful torture.--An Indian sweetheart.--In the bushes.--Recaptured.--Lamed for life.--The Sleek Otter.--Lee kills Rolling Thunder, and escapes, Pages 861-881

BIG FOOT WALLACE.--The greatest living scout.--Smeared with blood.--"If I was your mammy, young man."--Fat pecans.--The camp.--Big Foot takes a stroll.--Indians.--The race for your life up the ca�on.--Wallace kills his pursuer.--Lost.--A snug cave.--The cur "Comanche."--The sprained ankle.--Weary weeks in the wilderness.--An old squaw with a face as wrinkled as a walnut.--Captured, condemned, and reprieved.--Black Wolf's legend.--The spectral "Halloo-o-o!"--An Indian Rip Van Winkle.--The ghost.--Attacked by wolves.--All night in danger.--The fight with the Indians.--"Mr. Author."--The adventures of a greenhorn.--The rattlesnake joke.--A gulp of pepper-sauce.--Big Foot as he is.--Bowie's fight.--The treasure hunters.--The fatal battle, Pages 882-915

DAVID CROCKETT.--The wretched home.--Dodging a drunken father.--A child alone in a wilderness.--Twice married.--Walks fifty miles in one day.--The flames of fever.--Frontier justice.--The candidate.--In the Legislature.--Moves west.--The bear hunt in the storm.--The coat with two pockets.--"Half horse, half alligator."--Elected to Congress, when he could neither read nor write.--The dinner with the President.--Three terms.--Then defeat.--To Texas.--The siege of the Alamo.--Crockett bravely meets death.--THE FIGHTING PARSON.--A young teamster.--A successful preacher.--In the confederate army.--Attacked in the ca�on.--Peaceful days. Pages 916-936

Treaties with the Indians.--Connecticut and Virginia cede their claims.--Northwestern Territory organized.--Marietta settled.--Territorial government inaugurated.--Exploit of Louisa St. Clair.--Cincinnati founded.--Settlements in Symme's purchase.--Cincinnati takes precedence.--Why.--Thrilling adventure of two spies.--Harmar's and St. Clair's defeat.--Wayne's legion.--Captain Wells, Robert and William McClellan, and other scouts.--Their movements.--Wayne's victory.--Treaty at Greenville.--Sad fate of Wells.--The McClellans.--Counties organized.--Primitive courts.--Ohio admitted as a State, Pages 937-979

Civilized savages.--The plains Indians.--The sign language.--Red babies.--Girls and boys.--Candidates for warriorship.--Indian love-making.--Mrs. Squaw frequently "goes off with a handsomer man."--The custom of "roping."--Life in the teepe.--Indian cookery.--Gormandizing.--Fat puppy.--"Par fleche."--Dressing buffalo skins.--The slaughter of the buffalo.--Costume.--A green feather and a pair of hoop-skirts.--The unhappy Digger.--The winter camp.--Games and gambling.--Substitute for whiskey.--Racing.--Victory of "the sheep."--Songs and dances.--The medicine dance.--Scalp dance.--Indian religion.--The priest.--Self-tortures.--Burial spots.--"I hope the good God will give us the white man's road."--Ideas of value.--A buffalo robe for a lump of sugar.--Disease.--Signal smokes.--The famous medicine fight.--Breech-loaders.--The frontiersmen.--The Indian question.--Suggestions.--Farewell, Pages 980-1032

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