The Captivity of Jenny Wiley and the Fate of Her Baby at the Hands of the Cherokee (Ep. 2 of 3)
In this episode we read from the 1910 book by William Elsey Connelley: "Eastern Kentucky papers; the founding of Harman's Station, with an account of the Indian Captivity of Mrs. Jennie Wiley and the exploration of the Big Sandy Valley in the Virginias and Kentucky .
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The Iroquois Chief Logan and the Tomahawk of Martin Wetzel, West Virginia, 1777 (Lewis Wetzel 3/3)
In this episode, we read from Robert Cornelius V. Meyer's Book "The Life and Adventures of Lewis Wetzel," published all the way back in 1890. This story is about a Mingo Iroquois Chief Logan whose family was massacred by General Cresap in the Yellow Creek Massacre in 1774, and about Martin Wetzel who was captured by Shawnee Chief Cornstalk's tribe.
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Republic of Texas Soldiers Disarmed by US Dragoons, in 1843, While Fighting Mexicans and Comanches
In this episode we read from Indian Depredations in Texas, by J.W. Wilbarger, published all the way back in 1889. This is a story about Republic of Texas, American, Mexican, and Comanche forces converging near the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles, in present day Kansas and Colorado, in 1843.
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Hannah Duston's Capture by Indians and Violent Escape, in Haverhill Massachusetts, 1697 (ep. 1)
In this episode we read from "Heroism of Hannah Duston: Together with the Indian Wars of New England" by Robert Boodey Caverly, published in 1875.
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The Indians Called Him "Death Wind:" Lewis Wetzel, the Fierce Frontiersman of Western Virginia
In this episode, we read from Robert Cornelius V. Meyer's Book "The Life and Adventures of Lewis Wetzel," published all the way back in 1890. This book provides a very different account of the death of Lewis' father, John Wetzel than the book "History of the Early Settlement and Indian Wars of West Virginia," by Wills De Hass, published in 1851, which we read from in a recent video about Lewis Wetzel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL_hJ92K38I
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