. Indian history for young folks . BURNING THE PRISONERS. dark, selected three of their best rifles, and then notified Kenton and histwo companions. She had previously prepared food, ammunition, andclothing for them, which she had secreted in a hollow tree well known toKenton. At the appointed hour they climbed into the garden, receivedthe guns from their benefactress, and, heaping thanks and blessings uponher, hastened away. Kenton never saw her afterwards, but to his latesthour he never forgot her, and delighted in recalling and expatiating uponthe courage and goodness of the traders wife. I
. Indian history for young folks . BURNING THE PRISONERS. dark, selected three of their best rifles, and then notified Kenton and histwo companions. She had previously prepared food, ammunition, andclothing for them, which she had secreted in a hollow tree well known toKenton. At the appointed hour they climbed into the garden, receivedthe guns from their benefactress, and, heaping thanks and blessings uponher, hastened away. Kenton never saw her afterwards, but to his latesthour he never forgot her, and delighted in recalling and expatiating uponthe courage and goodness of the traders wife. In 1824 the old pioneer appeared at Frankfort in tattered garments, to INDIAN HISTORY FOR YOrNU petition the legislature of Kentucky to ivlra>e the claim of the State uponsome land owned by him. His appearance at tir-t excited ridicule, but. onbeing recognized, he was treated with distinction and the lands KENTON AND HIS The cut on the following page is from a painting of the old veteran madeat this time. Congress subsequently gave him a pension, which he enjoyeduntil his death in 18o(>. Kenton was a pleasant companion and honestin his dealings, but so credulous that the same man might cheat himtwenty times, and if he professed friendship he might cheat him still. Out of manv interesting narratives of single combat between the In- • O O dian and the white man we select the following: Two brothers named Poe, both remarkable for size, strength, and cour-age, joined, in the summer of 17S2. a party in pursuit of some Indianmarauders, between Wheeling and Fort Pitt. Andrew Poe, fearing anambuscade, left the others, crossed the Ohio, and cautiously crept alongthe bank. He soon espied, within a few >teps of him. a Wyandot chief, alarge and powerful man, and a smaller Indian, both so intent upon themovements of his party as not to have noticed him. THE BACKWOODSMEN OF KENTU
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