THE

PIONEER HISTORY

OF

AMERICA.

A POPULAR ACCOUNT OF THE

HEROES AND ADVENTURERS

WHO, BY THEIR VALOR AND WAR-CRAFT, BEAT BACK THE SAVAGES FROM THE
BORDERS OF CIVILIZATION AND GAVE THE AMERICAN FORESTS

TO THE PLOW AND THE SICKLE.

EMBRACING

THE LEGEND OF POWHATAN; THE

TRIALS OF LA SALLE; THE FATE OF PHILIP; THE

LION AND THE LILIES; ROGERS's rangerS; THE ADVENTURES

OF WAYNE'S SCOUTS; THE AMBITION OF PONTIAC; BRANT AND THE
MOHAWKS; THE BLOODY YEAR OF THE THREE 7's; THE CONFLICT IN THE
OHIO VALLEY; THE EXPLOITS OF WETZEL; THE COURAGE OF KENTON; THE BRAVERY
OF BRADY; THE DAYS OF DANIEL BOONE; THE MORAVIAN MASSACRES; THE CRUELTIES OF
GIRTY; THE DOOM OF CRAWFORD; TROUBLES OF THE TENNESSEEANS; THE ROMANCE

OF RED EAGLE; THE TRUE STORY OF THE PROPHET; THE SORROWS OF THE
SEMINOLES, BLACK HAWK'S HUMILIATION; THE HISTORY OF KIT

CARSON; THE HEROES OF THE LONE STAR STATE; THE

TRAGEDY OF MINNESOTA; JOSEPH AND HIS BRETH-

REN; THE RED MAN OF TO-DAY, ETC.

BY

AUGUSTUS LYNCH MASON, A. M.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION

BY JOHN CLARK RIDPATH, LL. D.

CINCINNATI:

THE JONES BROTHERS PUBLISHING CO.,
51 & 53 LONGWORTH STREET.

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PREFACE.

C

IVILIZATION is a war-a war of light with darkness;

of truth with falsehood; of the illuminated intellect and the rectified heart with the barbarism of ignorance and the animalism of the savage.

The present work portrays a single phase of this sublime conflict. It recounts one of the thousand campaigns of this war. It is an attempt to condense into a single volume, and give an adequate literary expression to the thrilling history of the struggle between the White man and the Red man for the possession of this continent. It is also intended to be a memorial to a race of heroes. Other countries have esteemed their earliest heroes as worthy the song of the poet and the praise of the historian. With us, the deeds of our fathers are as yet unsung, and their very names are fading from our memory.

This book is historical, but not history. That is to say, it is a truthful account of real events, gathered from a vast mass of authorities. Yet the design has been pictorial rather than geometrical. The author has sought rather to paint a picture than to make a map. In the execution of this purpose he has been nobly seconded by the PUBLISHERS, who have spared neither trouble nor expense to procure for him rare

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