History of the early settlement of the Juniata Valley : embracing an account of the early pioneers, and the trials and privations incident to the settlement of the valley ; predatory incursions, massacres, and abductions by the Indians during the French and Indian wars, and the War of the Revolution, &c. . st 346 HISTORY OF THE JUNIATA VALLEY, shocking manner, after which they scalped him, and di^appeared. When found, (which was suj)posed to be within twohours after the murder,) Crum was lying with his face tothe ground, his rifle by his side, and the Indian Avar-club,clotted with blood and br
History of the early settlement of the Juniata Valley : embracing an account of the early pioneers, and the trials and privations incident to the settlement of the valley ; predatory incursions, massacres, and abductions by the Indians during the French and Indian wars, and the War of the Revolution, &c. . st 346 HISTORY OF THE JUNIATA VALLEY, shocking manner, after which they scalped him, and di^appeared. When found, (which was suj)posed to be within twohours after the murder,) Crum was lying with his face tothe ground, his rifle by his side, and the Indian Avar-club,clotted with blood and brains, lying across his body,—a sad sight for his wife, who was among the first on thespot after the tragedy. This murder, committed in open daylight on a fre-quented road, in the very heart of a thickly-jDopulatedcountry, did not fail to produce the most intense excite-ment, and a party of rangers started at once after themarauders. They soon got upon their trail, and followedthem to the top of the mountain, getting sight of themseveral times; but they were always out of knew they were pursued, and took such a route asthe rangers could not follow, and so eluded them, andcarried in triumph to the British garrison at Detroit thelast scalp taken by the red men in the Juniata Illo Q O KK < oo HISTORY OF THE JUNIATA VALLKY. 347 CHAPTER XXXIII. WARRIOR RIDGE — WARRIORs MARK — JOH CIIILLAWAY, SHANEYJOHN, AND CAPTAIN LOGAN, THE LAST RED MEN IN THE JUNIATAVALLEY. Warrior Ridge, between Alexandria and Huntingdon,derives its name from an Indian path which ran along thesummit of it. The Pulpit Rocks, not unlike the altars ofthe Druids, shaped into fantastic forms b} the hand ofnature, as well as the wild romantic scenery around them,at once suggest the idea of a place of meeting of thewarriors,— a spot where the councils of the brave wereheld, with the greensward of the mountain for a carpetand the blue vault of heaven for a canopy. Were we notso we
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