Author: Charles Mcknight

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-12

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13: 9780265224373

Excerpt from Simon Girty; "The White Savage" (So Called by Heckewelder, Moravian Missionary): A Romance of the Border But few words are needed to explain the purpose of the following work. For nearly a score of years Simon Girty figured with a bad preeminence on our Western Border. From his renegade flight from Fort Pitt (now Pittsburgh), in I 778, down to Mad Anthony Wayne's battle of the Fallen Timbers in I 794, when the power and coherence of the Ohio Indian tribes were forever broken, Girty and his brothers were the scourge of the border. The dreaded name was a terror in every frontier cabin, the mere mention of which would cause woman's cheek to blanch and children's hair to stand with fear. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.