. Outdoor life and Indian stories : making open air life attractive to young Americans by telling them all about woodcraft, signs and signaling, the stars, fishing, camping ... : also stories of noted hunters and scouts, great Indians and warriors ... all of them true and interesting . KIT CARSON A panic instantly spread among the Indians, who broke intoheadlong flight in all directions. A strange dispute raged for years as to who it was thatkilled Tecumseh. Although it was never settled, it is gener-ally believed that it was Colonel Richard M. Johnson ofKentucky, afterward Vice-President of t
. Outdoor life and Indian stories : making open air life attractive to young Americans by telling them all about woodcraft, signs and signaling, the stars, fishing, camping ... : also stories of noted hunters and scouts, great Indians and warriors ... all of them true and interesting . KIT CARSON A panic instantly spread among the Indians, who broke intoheadlong flight in all directions. A strange dispute raged for years as to who it was thatkilled Tecumseh. Although it was never settled, it is gener-ally believed that it was Colonel Richard M. Johnson ofKentucky, afterward Vice-President of the United the identity of Tecumsehs slayer may be uncertain,there is no doubt that, whoever he was, he closed the careerof the greatest American Indian that ever lived. ADVENTURES OF WEATHERFORD CHIEF OF THE CREEK CONFEDERACY. LIVING at the time of Tecumseh,was a chief of strong ability, thoughinferior to the great Shawanoe in thenobler qualities. He was Weatherford,the Creek leader, whose name recallsone of the most terrible incidents inx*£, the history of the frontier. It will be remembered that Tecum-seh visited the Creeks, and when hisburning appeals failed to rouse hislisteners as he expected, he declared inhis impatience that when he got homete would stamp the ground and it should shake. His returnwas followed by the historical New Madrid earthquake. But for the fatal blunder of The Prophet, in bringing onthe battle of Tippecanoe, while Tecumseh was absent, theCreeks as a body would have joined the confederacy. As itwas, the younger warriors were swept off their feet by theShawanoes eloquence, though many of the elders urgedIhem to keep out of the war that was sure to bring sufferingind disaster to them. Withal, in the face of bad traits, Weatherford was brave, eloquent and tactful He required a stro
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