Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . statesmen or cowardlyrhetoricians. JACOB WETZEL AND HIS FAITHFUL DOG-A LEGENDOF CINCINNATI. The Wetzels were among the bravest of the brave hunters whoranged the forests when Ohio was the Far-West, and Cincinnati amere collection of cabins; when the smooth waters of the majesticriver which gave its name to the state, were disturbed only by theprow of the bark canoe, or the flat boat, as it leisurely floated downupon its tide ; and th
Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . statesmen or cowardlyrhetoricians. JACOB WETZEL AND HIS FAITHFUL DOG-A LEGENDOF CINCINNATI. The Wetzels were among the bravest of the brave hunters whoranged the forests when Ohio was the Far-West, and Cincinnati amere collection of cabins; when the smooth waters of the majesticriver which gave its name to the state, were disturbed only by theprow of the bark canoe, or the flat boat, as it leisurely floated downupon its tide ; and the Miamis, the Pottawatomies, and the Shawnees,contended with the white man for the right to these beautiful hunting-grounds. Many and thrilling are the incidents related of JacobWetzel, the most fearless of the brothers. He hated the red-manwith a mortal hatred, and reveled in the hand-to-hand contest, inwhich life was the stake. On one occasion he was returning from a very successful hunt, inwhich he had secured a large amount of game, to procure a horseon which to pack his booty. He had reached a spot near the banks 292 JACOB WETZEL AND HIS FAITHFUL DOG,. ilE S CRITICAL SITUATION. of a water-course which ran iuto the Ohio, in the immediate vicinityof the collection of cabins which occupied the site where now standsthe Queen City of the West/and had sat down upon a log towipe away the perspiration, whiclhis exertions in pressing througlthe thickets of un- __jn derbrush hadstarted upon hisface, notwithstand- .#mg the season, ^when his attentionwas awakened bya rustling of theleaves and cracking of dry twigs under the feet of some heavyanimal, or more dangerous foe. His dog, too, which till now hadsat quietly at his side, was startled by the sound, and gave utteranceto a low growl, which betokened his consciousness of the proximityof an enemy. Silencing the animal by a gesture, Wetzel seized hisrifle, and springing behind a tree, peered through the leaves to dis-cover h
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