. 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 . ey were reinforcements and that the Indiansonly safety lay in instant flight. Just as the sun was settingthey retreated across the Ohio and made for their townsalong that river. $ * . ..^^ ^ -^---- The loss of the ^^M^^^2^ includednineofficers and about fiftyprivates, with nearlya hundred
. 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 . ey were reinforcements and that the Indiansonly safety lay in instant flight. Just as the sun was settingthey retreated across the Ohio and made for their townsalong that river. $ * . ..^^ ^ -^---- The loss of the ^^M^^^2^ includednineofficers and about fiftyprivates, with nearlya hundred of the Indians isnot known, but it isnot likely it exceededthat of the by thosewho were killed andwounded, the circum-stances, and thekngth of the conflict,the battle of PointPleasant, in the autumn of 1774, seems to justify the claimthat it was the hardest fought one that ever took place betweenthe American and Caucasian races. It has been said that grave suspicion was caused by thecoarse of Governor Dunmore. He set out with the purposeof attacking the rear of the Indians and cooperating withGeneral Lewis, and yet such could not have been his realintention, for he was seventy-five miles distant, and cooper-ation was out of the question. In the many attempts to. A BLOODY MASSACRE i42 A JMIGHTY MXNGO OHIJJIFTAIK explain his course, it was said he meant to sacrifice GeneralLewis and his men in order to add to his own a theory is absurd, however, for he would have beendenounced for his treachery, instead of being praised. Othershave thought that he felt the justice of the Indians cause, andtried to bring peace with the least destruction and harm tothem. To us, the more reasonable theory is, that GovernorDunmore saw, as every one else saw, that the colonies wereon the verge of rebellion against England, and he was veryanxious to keep the goodwill of the Indians, with a view tobringing them to the side of the mother country. Youknow he did all he cou
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