Tennessee historical magazine [serial] . smallbrothers had from drowning in the rapids of this river about1795, though they were adept at handling his fathers also tells how, in 1825, he fitted out two large flat-boatson the Obion River in the northwestern part of the State,whither he had moved, and loading them with thirty thousandpipe staves for market set out for New Orleans, but, hispilot being ignorant, one of his boats came to grief aboveMemphis, and the other one being lost on the Mississippi,he gave up boating and returned to West In Middle Tennessee the Harpeth,
Tennessee historical magazine [serial] . smallbrothers had from drowning in the rapids of this river about1795, though they were adept at handling his fathers also tells how, in 1825, he fitted out two large flat-boatson the Obion River in the northwestern part of the State,whither he had moved, and loading them with thirty thousandpipe staves for market set out for New Orleans, but, hispilot being ignorant, one of his boats came to grief aboveMemphis, and the other one being lost on the Mississippi,he gave up boating and returned to West In Middle Tennessee the Harpeth, flowing north into theCumberland near Nashville, the Elk, flowing south into theTennessee, and the Duck River, flowing westward and empty-ing into the Tennessee in Humphreys County, are the mostimportant; while the Obion, Hatchie and Wolf rivers arethe most noted on the western slope. These three flow directlyinto the Mississippi. 42Scott, Laws of Tennessee, Vol. I., p. 748.^David Crocketts Autobiography, pp. 19, 195. 208 ALBERT C. HOLT. O> fa< o oo n c 03 ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL BEGINNINGS OF TENNESSEE 209 CHAPTER II. THE INDIANS. The pioneer history of Tennessee is, like that of most of ourWestern States, a story of the settlers conquest of the In-dians and their occupation of what the Indians consideredtheir land. The picture of the typical pioneer shows us aman lean and spare and active, but with a touch of melancholyin his face. His life of activity and his frugal fare kept himspare and fit, and the wilderness fear left its mark on hisfeatures. The constant menace of the lurking Indian—toooften translated into a bitter experience for him and hisfamily,—inevitably turned his alertness into anxiety. Hay-woods early history of Tennessee is a long account of Indianwarfare. He begins with the struggles of the Watauga set-tlement in the northeastern part of the State, and narratesthe details of massacre after massacre. There is not a chapterfrom which the Indian is omitted
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