Thrilling adventures among the Indians: comprising the most remarkable personal narratives of events in the early Indian wars, as well as of incidents in the recent Indian hostilities in Mexico and Texas . e foot ofthe mountains, the Spaniard gave proofs of joy andgreat satisfaction, having found gold in great abun-dance. I was not acquainted with the nature of theore, but I lifted up what he called gold dust from thebottom of the little rivulets issuing from the cavitiesof the rocks, and it had a yellow cast, and was re-markably heavy; but so much was the Spaniardsatisfied, he relinquished hi
Thrilling adventures among the Indians: comprising the most remarkable personal narratives of events in the early Indian wars, as well as of incidents in the recent Indian hostilities in Mexico and Texas . e foot ofthe mountains, the Spaniard gave proofs of joy andgreat satisfaction, having found gold in great abun-dance. I was not acquainted with the nature of theore, but I lifted up what he called gold dust from thebottom of the little rivulets issuing from the cavitiesof the rocks, and it had a yellow cast, and was re-markably heavy; but so much was the Spaniardsatisfied, he relinquished his plan of prosecuting hisjourney, being perfectly convinced that he had founda country full of gold. On our return he took a diflerent route, and, whenwe reached the Mississippi, we went in a canoe to themouth of the Missouri, where we found a Spanishpost; there I was discharged by the Spaniard, wentto the country of the Chickesaws, from thence to theCherokees, and soon reached Ninety-six, in SouthCarolina. The lady, who is the heroine of this story, is namedExperience Bozarth. She lived on a creek calledDunkard creek, in the south-west corner of West-moreland county, Pennsylvania. About the middle. Mrs. Bozarth defending her Dwelling SINGULAR PROWESS OF A WOMAN. 27 of March, 1779, two or three families who were afraidto stay at home, gathered to her house, and therestayed; looking on themselves to be safer than whenall scattered about at their own houses. On a certain day some of the children thus col-lected, came running in from play in great haste, say-ing, there were ugly red men. One of the men inthe house stepped to the door, where he received aball in the side of his breast, which caused him to fallback into the house. The Indian was immediately inover him, and engaged with another man who wasin the house. The man tossed the Indian on a bed,and called for a knife to kill him. (Observe thesewere all the men that were in the house.) Now appears the only defence
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