Author: Warren Wildwood

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-03-12

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9780364384114

Excerpt from Thrilling Adventures Among the Early Settlers: Embracing Desperate Encounters With Indians, Tories, and Refugees; Daring Exploits of Texan Rangers and Others, and Incidents of Guerilla Warfare; Fearful Deeds of the Gamblers and Desperadoes, Rangers and Regulators of the West and Southwest; Hunting Sto But a brief period has elapsed since this continent was peopled by a new and daring race; a race who sought a refuge from. Tyranny and Oppression, among these American wilds; for civil and religious liberty; for liberty Of conscience to worship their Creator according to their own conceptions of heaven's revealed will. Among savage beasts and more savage men, liable at any moment to meet death in its most appalling forms, they yet Shrunk not from the burdens they had assumed, until their efforts were crowned by a glorious and final triumph. 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.