. With sabre and scalpel : the autobiography of a soldier and surgeon . tched the reservations of three greatIndian tribes—the Seminoles, nearest the Gulf of Mexico;then the restless, warring Creeks, and, closest in touch withcivilization, the wonderful Cherokees. Lovers of peace andtactful, they were on living terms not only with their war-like brothers, but friendly also with their Anglo-Saxonneighbors just across the Tennessee. Builders of houses :and tillers of the soil, these Indians had made such progresstoward civilization that they had in use a syllabic alphabetand a method of printing
. With sabre and scalpel : the autobiography of a soldier and surgeon . tched the reservations of three greatIndian tribes—the Seminoles, nearest the Gulf of Mexico;then the restless, warring Creeks, and, closest in touch withcivilization, the wonderful Cherokees. Lovers of peace andtactful, they were on living terms not only with their war-like brothers, but friendly also with their Anglo-Saxonneighbors just across the Tennessee. Builders of houses :and tillers of the soil, these Indians had made such progresstoward civilization that they had in use a syllabic alphabetand a method of printing. Invented by Sequoyah,1 thisalphabet of eighty-five characters, each representing a singlesound of their language, is pronounced by a writer in theAmerican Encyclopedia to be the most perfect alphabetever devised for any language. While the Cherokees could not hold the Creeks andSeminoles to peaceful ways, they would not allow them to 1 This remarkable man died in 1843. It was with this tribe that SaraHouston lived before and after he became Governor of WITH SABRE AND SCALPEL pass through their domain to harrow the white settlers northof the Tennessee. The massacre at Fort Mims, Alabama,on August 30, 1813, where four hundred men, women, andchildren were butchered, led to the annihilation of the CreekNation at the battle of the Horseshoe Bend on the Talla-poosa in 1814, while the remnant of their allies, the Semi-noles, sought refuge in the impenetrable marshes of theeverglades in Florida, where they still survive. For twenty-four years longer the Cherokees lingered in their native land,until by treaty in 1836 they marched to the West, and theirformer reservation was opened for settlers. When from a part of this Indian land the new county ofMarshall was formed, Louis Wyeth, a young lawyer, jour-neying by stage from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to Pitts-burg, by steamboat down the Ohio to Louisville, Kentucky,thence by stage to Huntsville, Alabama, and on foot forthe
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