The Winning of the West, Volume 2 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 472 pages of information about The Winning of the West, Volume 2.

The Winning of the West, Volume 2 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 472 pages of information about The Winning of the West, Volume 2.
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    attacked by Indians;
    despatches Col.  Field to the front;
    fortifies his camp;
    battle of the Great Kanawha;
    repulses the Indians;
    leaves his sick and wounded in camp and marches to join Lord;
  Dunmore;
    served creditably in the Revolution;
  Lewis Colonel Charles, a brother of General Lewis, I;
    commands Augusta troops;
    marches with the bulk of Gen. Lewis’ army;
    ordered to advance;
    mortally wounded;
  Lexington how named I;
  Logan an Iroquois of note, I;
    a friend of the whites;
    murder of his kinsfolk;
    his revenge;
    letter to Cresap;
    refuses to attend a council;
    his eloquent speech;
    perishes in a drunken brawl;
    evidence of the authenticity of his speech;
    intercedes successfully for Kenton II;
  Logan, Benjamin leads a party to Kentucky, I;
    his character;
    his bravery II;
    goes to the Holston for powder and lead;
    surprised by Indians;
    second in command;
    missing at the fight at Piqua;
    appointed colonel;
    capture of his family by the savages and their rescue;
    raises the whole force of Lincoln;
    buries the dead after the battle of the Blue Licks;
    with Clark in the Miami country;
    destroys stores of British traders;
  Logan’s Station, fort built at, I;
    attacked by Indians, II;
  Long Hunters, the, why so called, I;
  Long Knives, designation given Virginians by the Indians, I;
     extension of the term, I;
  Long Run, Squire Boon defeated at, II
  Lord Dunmore’s War, begun by the Indians, I;
    Cresap’s reprisals;
    murder of Logan’s kinsfolk;
    wrath of the Indians;
    the frontier ravaged by Indians;
    panic on the border;
    Logan’s revenge;
    counterstrokes of backwoodsmen;
    burn a Shawnee village;
    the opening act of the drama that was closed at Yorktown;
  Lorimer surprises and captures Boon, II;
  Loughry, annihilation of his party, II;
  Louisiana, purchase of, I;
    ceded by France to Spain
  Louisville, founded by Clark, II;
  Lulbegrud Creek, origin of name, I;
  McAfee brothers, the, incident in their career, I;
    visit Kentucky;
    meet Cornstalk and the Shawnees;
    visit Big Bone Lick;
    their sufferings on their homeward journey;
    reach Powell’s Valley;
    meet Boon there;
    return to Kentucky;
    build a stockade, II;
    attacked by Indians;
    narrow individual escapes;
    relieved by McGarry
  McConnell, names his hut Lexington, I;
    captured near Lexington, II;
    slays his captors and escapes
  McCulloch, Major Samuel, a leading man on the border, II;
    escape from the Indians
  McDowell, Col., asks the Holston men for help, II;
    beaten by Ferguson;
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